Utah rape stats

[_beastie]

Someone brought this to my attention, and I was wondering if anyone has more information.

http://www.mazeministry.com/Mormonism/s ... s/rape.htm

Rape Crime in Utah Well Above National Average

A federal report shows that one in five adult women in Utah—or a total of 157,000 women in the state—has been forcibly raped at least once in her lifetime. The report comes from the South Carolina-based National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center, giving Utah the top spot in the continental United States for its estimated percentage of rape victims. "Our findings clearly demonstrate the fact that Utah has a substantial rape problem," said the report from the research group, which was established and is partly funded by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

"I was shocked to see this," said Jamee Roberts, executive director of the Salt Lake City-based Rape Recovery Center. "I knew we were bad; I had no idea we were this bad. We should be hanging our heads in shame." She added that the numbers are reliable and can be trusted. Only Alaska (20.9% of its women raped versus 20.6% in Utah compared to 13.4% of all women nationally) has a higher rate in the United States. The estimates are said to be conservative because they do not include the cases of women who have experienced attempted rape; rapes where the women were unconscious or impaired by drugs or alcohol; or statutory rape where there was no force. (Salt Lake Tribune, 7/12/03)

I found this as well:

http://newscafe.ansci.usu.edu/archive/m ... _rape.html

In the year 2000, Utah's rape rate increased by 4 percent.

Utah has a rape rate about 15 percent higher than the national rate. (To link to the Utah state government web page comparing national rape statistics with Utah's from 1980-2000, click here.)

This article mentions people questioning the stat:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_q ... _n11412284

My gut instinct is, if this is true and Utah has a higher rate of rape, it's because of patriarchy and extreme sexual suppression, which sometimes creates harmful fetishes. [/quote]

[_Imwashingmypirate]

Maybe the Mormons are more likely to tell someone about it that most other people.

[_Runtu]

It's all the non-Mormons who are doing it.

[_MishMagnet]

Certainly it's the apostates.

[_Imwashingmypirate]

Maybe it's the Mormons doing the raping. What about male rape?

[_karl61]

it must be because of all the playboy magazines they sell in Utah.

[_Doctor Steuss]

'nuff said.

[_Imwashingmypirate]

YAY GOG STEUS. Also that woman has really interesting palms.

[_charity]

Someone brought this to my attention, and I was wondering if anyone has more information.

http://www.mazeministry.com/Mormonism/s ... s/rape.htm

Rape Crime in Utah Well Above National Average

A federal report shows that one in five adult women in Utah—or a total of 157,000 women in the state—has been forcibly raped at least once in her lifetime. The report comes from the South Carolina-based National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center, giving Utah the top spot in the continental United States for its estimated percentage of rape victims. "Our findings clearly demonstrate the fact that Utah has a substantial rape problem," said the report from the research group, which was established and is partly funded by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

"I was shocked to see this," said Jamee Roberts, executive director of the Salt Lake City-based Rape Recovery Center. "I knew we were bad; I had no idea we were this bad. We should be hanging our heads in shame." She added that the numbers are reliable and can be trusted. Only Alaska (20.9% of its women raped versus 20.6% in Utah compared to 13.4% of all women nationally) has a higher rate in the United States. The estimates are said to be conservative because they do not include the cases of women who have experienced attempted rape; rapes where the women were unconscious or impaired by drugs or alcohol; or statutory rape where there was no force. (Salt Lake Tribune, 7/12/03)

I found this as well:

http://newscafe.ansci.usu.edu/archive/m ... _rape.html

In the year 2000, Utah's rape rate increased by 4 percent.

Utah has a rape rate about 15 percent higher than the national rate. (To link to the Utah state government web page comparing national rape statistics with Utah's from 1980-2000, click here.)

This article mentions people questioning the stat:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_q ... _n11412284

My gut instinct is, if this is true and Utah has a higher rate of rape, it's because of patriarchy and extreme sexual suppression, which sometimes creates harmful fetishes.

[/quote]

You need less biased, more recent stats, evidently.

See this link for stats as of Dec 2006

http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/16863 ... commit=%3E

Utah is 17th. And of course, looking at the states which have a higher incidence of rape, there are bastions of liberality which would refute your patriarchy theory.

Beastie, it is really difficult coming up with causations based merely on correlations.

1. You have decided that a stat coming from Utah will necessarily have a religious background. (Patriarchy.)
2. You assume, without basis, that sexual suppression is rampant in Utah. I haven't seen any proof of that.

Analyzing sociological information is what I studied. Your analysis really is off the mark, here.

[_charity]

So much gullibility here. You just all accepted beastie's stats. You didn't even ask if they were accurate or not. Shame on you all.