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Re:Being a victim of rape costs an average of $3,500 in medi... by smt88 on Saturday September 17, 2022 @02:41PM (#32880111)
I don't know about this specific crime, but a lot of crimes are correlated with arrest rate.

For example, there were places with a lot of illegal street racing that were able to drastically reduce the problem with slightly higher arrest rates.

Somehow the criminals have a mental calculus of their likelihood of facing charges (maybe just based on anecdata from media reports -- who knows!) and they behave accordingly.

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Re:Being a victim of rape costs an average of $3,500 in medi... by jgtrosh on Saturday September 17, 2022 @06:22PM (#32882193)
By far, the most effective deterrent is indeed “certainty of being caught” (far more than whatever punishment happens afterwards) https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterr...
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Re:Being a victim of rape costs an average of $3,500 in medi... by drc500free on Saturday September 17, 2022 @06:50PM (#32882395)
What's interesting is that severity of punishment has very little effect, while certainty of punishment has a large effect.
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Re:Being a victim of rape costs an average of $3,500 in medi... by ouid on Saturday September 17, 2022 @02:50PM (#32880202)
The phenomenon is better explained by: much higher arrest rates -> fewer people doing it -> fewer people to arrest -> lower arrest rates.
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