The truth, the half-truth, and nothing like the truth: reconceptualizing false allegations of rape

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Saunders, Candida L. (2012) The truth, the half-truth, and nothing like the truth: reconceptualizing false allegations of rape. British Journal of Criminology, 52 (6). pp. 1152-1171. ISSN 0007-0955

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Official URL: https://academic.oup.com/bjc/article-abstract/52/6/1152/347356

Abstract

There is a longstanding dispute between criminal justice professionals on the one hand and researchers and commentators on the other regarding the prevalence of false allegations of rape. Prevalence, however, is contingent upon definition. If the various protagonists’ definitions of a ‘false allegation’ do not coincide, it is virtually inevitable that their estimates will diverge. Drawing on original empirical data from in-depth research interviews conducted with police and Crown Prosecutors, this article explores the following important but much neglected question: When criminal justice professionals tell us that false allegations of rape are common, what precisely are they talking about? What ‘counts’ as a false allegation?

Item Type:	Article
RIS ID:	https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/711608
Keywords:	false allegations, rape, prevalence, no-criming, witness veracity, credibility
Schools/Departments:	University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Identification Number:	10.1093/bjc/azs036
Depositing User:	Saunders, Candida
Date Deposited:	09 May 2018 08:33
Last Modified:	04 May 2020 16:34
URI:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/51636

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