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This document is a Report consecutive to a newspaper statistics (based mainly on declining police department reports of sexual assault) which proclams : "Rape is in decline in the U.S.” Rape crisis providers in Cook County, who have seen no decline in the need for their services, are quick to point out that unlike other crimes, rape is only rarely reported to police authorities. What, then, is the prevalence of rape in Cook County, Illinois, and is response to this crime adequate? This report attempts to answer these questions. Available data, as will soon be apparent, make definitive statements problematic. However, data analysis concluded that sexual assault is an underestimated problem in Cook County, and responses are grossly inadequate. |
