[Marxism] Any statistics on corporate illegality?

["Jurriaan Bendien" <andromeda246@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well statistically we could both be correct, because after all rape is a
sub-set of total violent crime. Let's have a look. In rough figures, there
are now roughly half a million fewer reported violent crimes in the USA than
in 1992. Since 1992, the number of reported rapes significantly decreased,
and the incidence of reported rape also declined.

"According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports,
there were 95,136 forcible rapes reported to United States law enforcement
agencies in 2002. Sixty-five out of every 100,000 women were reported to be
victims of rape that year, up 4.7% from 2001 but down 3.9% from 1998. The
actual number of rapes and sexual assaults, however, is in reality much
larger; estimates of unreported rape range between 2 and 10 times the number
reported to law enforcement.

The National Violence Against Women Survey, jointly sponsored by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute of
Justice (NIJ) and conducted in the mid-1990s, found that one in six women
(18%) and one in 33 men (3%) has experienced an attempted or completed rape.
The survey estimated that approximately 17,722,672 women and 2,782,440 men
in the United States have been raped or have had rape attempted as a child
or adult, and that 302,091 women and 92,748 men were raped in the 12 months
prior to the study."
http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/rape_and_sexual_assault.jsp

This data would then suggest to me a ratio of something like 3 unreported
rapes (attempted or completed) to 1 reported rape, or something like 300,000
unreported rapes (attempted or completed) per year, which would be equal to
roughly one-fifth of the reported violent crime (correct me if I am wrong).
But there is a grey area here also, since anybody can say that they believe
somebody wanted to rape them, and as far as they were concerned, that was
the case, or that there was a real threat of rape. But whether it was
objectively the case may be very difficult to verify.

The US Justice Department states "In 2002, women experienced an estimated
494,570 rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault and simple assault
victimizations at the hands of an intimate, down from 1.1 million in 1993."
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvict_c.htm#relate If true, that is surely a
significant progressive trend. I don't think the Justice Department can
fiddle the figures to the order of 600,000 assaults.

Jurriaan



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