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No one cries foul when a student is expelled for cheating on an exam based on the preponderance of the evidence. Yet many mourn the lost “bright futures” of classmates accused of rape. And they insist that accusations of gender-based violence, and only gender-based violence, be put to the test of the criminal justice system. In doing so, they invoke old, insidious myths about the woman who “cries rape,” found everywhere from the Bible to the Model Penal Code. Why do we think an accusation of sexual assault is any more likely to be false than an accusation of a punch in the face? The answer necessarily lies in the differing confidence placed in different kinds of victims—and there is a special skepticism reserved for anyone who claims to have been raped.
Fair Process, Not Criminal Process, Is the Right Way to Address Campus Sexual Assault

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