“The problem with David Lisak’s serial predator theory of campus sexual assault.”
David Lisak’s serial predator theory of campus rape has made him a celebrity. Once a virtually unknown associate professor at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, his work is now cited by White House officials and reporters for major newspapers. […]
Much of the urgency around the topic of sexual assault on college campuses traces back to Lisak’s repeated claim that campus offenders are violent sociopaths who use “sophisticated strategies to groom” their targets and “terrify and coerce their victims into submission.” Lisak asserts that 90 percent of campus rapes are committed by serial offenders who average six rapes each. He has said that “every report should be viewed and treated as an opportunity to identify a serial rapist.”
Yet for all the attention paid to David Lisak, the problematic paper on which his fame rests has been left largely unscrutinized. And as it turns out, the paper relies on survey data not collected by Lisak, with no direct connection to campus sexual assault. […]
In March, when I pointed to the differences between the men in Lisak’s paper and the student population on which his popular campus presentations focus, Lisak responded: “Are you asking if there are comprehensive studies about sexual offenders on traditional college campuses? No, there aren’t.” Yet this is exactly how Lisak’s work has been treated.
Even the serial nature of the assaults reported in Lisak’s paper is speculation, since he did not distinguish between multiple offenses committed against multiple victims and multiple offenses committed against one victim. In fact, when asked about the high number of assaults by individuals who allegedly remained “undetected” by law enforcement, Lisak stated that “a number of these cases were domestic violence,” i.e., ongoing abuse in intimate partnerships, including marriages.
This is an important revelation. Even a single rape is abhorrent. Even one woman, victimized multiple times, endures trauma. But campus training and government policy, citing Lisak, are being built around presumptions of serial, predatory behavior from most campus rapists, a fact not established in the data and potentially contradicted by Lisak’s own characterization of the men included in his paper.
The high rate of other forms of violence reported by the men in Lisak’s paper further suggests they are an atypical group. Of the 120 subjects Lisak classified as rapists, 46 further admitted to battery of an adult, 13 to physical abuse of a child, 21 to sexual abuse of a child, and 70—more than half the group—to other forms of criminal violence. By itself, the nearly 20 percent who had sexually abused a child should signal that this is not a group from whom it is reasonable to generalize findings to a college campus.
Yet in spite of the peripheral relationship between his research and college campuses, Lisak has called for draconian action against students accused of sexual assault: “These men,” he has said of “undetected rapists” and “serial sexual predators…cannot be reached or educated. They must be identified and removed from our communities.”
Imagine that, National policy based on extremely faulty research being forced on the populace.? Did David Lisak ever room with Michael Mann?
And what serial predatory conduct did they engage in together?
Too lazy to dig further.
Does he mention their destination?
CC would solve these sorts of problems.
Obviously we need to resegregate colleges & universities by sex and institute extreme in loco parentis measures.
Especially for the women’s colleges, the poor fragile darlings
even a single freezer-burned cupcake is abhorrent
but good icing covers a lot of sins especially with the frosting-filled ones
campus rape is a very serious issue also
asking the important questions
Jesus, the Bauhaus got rolling in strength in the 1920s and they’re only just now coming around to looking at serial campus rape?Unaesthetic dullards one and all, I say.
As Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn pointed out in his magisterial work, Leftism Revisited: From de Sade And Mark To Hitler And Pol Pot [emphasis mine]:
Clearly what’s going on here is an effort by the sunken-chested, the effeminate and the emasculated to remove the competition and hoard all the hot coeds for themselves.
How they plan to compete with the more masculine lesbians is anybody’s guess.
Very badly, I would think, Ernst – very, very badly.
The guys I knew in college who thought they needed lots of sex never seemed to have any trouble finding willing accomplices. I don’t get it.
Good ‘ol fashioned moral panic bgbear
The only way this stops is for a couple thousand hero guys to get drunk, get laid, then claim rape.
They just have to do it fast, none of this waiting two or three years. Get wasted and blown on Saturday, file the claim on Monday AM.
everyone should come up with a skit about how rape is bad and whoever does the best skit can win fun prizes like a selfie stick and whataburger gift certificates
bgbear, all those guys you knew were rapists.
Gotta wonder if they mention these fun ‘facts’ in the college brochures.
Come to Cornell – The Rapiest Place on Earth!™
OT: add Kurt Schlichter to the list of people preaching from Goldstein’s Gospel:
Agitate like Samuel Adams would.
Make ’em uncomfortable and irritated.
Shake the corrupt, Quisling bastards up.
Attack, attack, attack.
Fortune always favors the Bold.
Audacity, Audacity – always Audacity! —What? Do you want to live forever?
#OUTLAW
Please, BB, be reasonable.
You’ll scare away Ace.
And PeeP.
Ace went to that seminar in Iowa where they taught him how to sew fake testicles into his panties. So now he’s feeling his barbaric YAWP.
At least until Bush or Christy or some other RINO who’s eyes are just dreamy comes along.
‘Ace Of Knaves’, you mean?
The guy [term used loosely] can be quite funny, but, man, is he a [pardon my vulgarity…or sarong] Pussy, 1st Class.
A couple of my apartment mates were at least statutory rapists in that they bragged about sleeping with young teenage girls over in married student housing. They were 19 – 20 and the girls 14 – 15. I would have been ashamed to fantasize about it.