Sexual Assault: Women's Voices on the Health Impacts of Not Being Believed by Police
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Background . Sexual assault is a prevalent crime against women with known negative effects on health. Recent media attention has identified that many sexual assault reports are not believed by police, and therefore coded as “unfounded”. This is consistent with public discourse of inaccurate rape myths that indicate that some women lie about sexual assault. Whereas he actual rate of false reporting is low. Negative reporting experiences of sexual assault have been associated with re-victimization and trauma among survivors. However, little is known about the impact that being sexually assaulted and not believed by police has on a survivor’s health and well-being. Thus, the purpose of this qualitative study was to explore women’s experiences of not being believed by police after sexual assault and their perceived impact on health. Results . Thematic analysis revealed three salient themes: 1) Broken Expectations, 2) Loss of Self, and 3) Cumulative Effect. Within the theme of Broken Expectations, two subthemes emerged including Loss of Trust and Re-victimization. Conclusion . The findings highlighted that not being believed by police resulted in additional mental and social burdens beyond that of the sexual assault. Many survivors felt re-victimized at a time when they needed support, leading to maladaptive coping mechanisms. Having a better understanding of the negative health impacts is important for police, health, and social service providers who may be able to positively influence reporting experience and overall health effects.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".