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The FBI Finally Ditches Its 80-Year-Old Definition Of Rape

Slate.com 11/12/2014

“… For nearly 80 years, U.S. officials have collected crime data from local, federal, and tribal law enforcement agencies in order to paint a statistical portrait of violent and property crimes reported across America. And for nearly 80 years, this Uniform Crime Reporting program has relied on the same old definition of rape: the “carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.” Last year, the FBI finally updated the definition for the modern era. …”

Read the entire article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/11/10/fbi_2013_crime_report_the_bureau_expands_its_definition_of_rape.html