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David Lisak, the clinical psychologist considered to be one of the nation’s foremost experts on acquaintance rape. He was asked to provide “educational testimony”: information about what the best research reveals about rapists and their victims. Defense lawyers David Paoli and Kirsten Pabst were so worried about the potential impact of Lisak’s testimony on the jury that they filed a pretrial motion to prevent him from testifying, but Judge Karen Townsend denied it, and Lisak was allowed to appea...r.
Prosecutor Joel Thompson began by asking Dr. Lisak about “misconceptions about rape”—rape myths. When people hear the term “rapist,” Lisak said, many of them “think of a guy in a ski mask, wielding a knife, hiding in the bushes, breaking into a home. And it’s a scary image, and it does happen, but…the vast majority of rapes, well over eighty percent, are actually non-stranger rapes.” One of the other myths, he added, was the widely held belief that “a non-stranger assault is less serious and has less serious harm, but the research shows that victims of non-stranger assault are equally affected as victims of stranger assault.”
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
David Lisak, the clinical psychologist considered to be one of the nation’s foremost experts on acquaintance rape. He was asked to provide “educational testimony”: information about what the best research reveals about rapists and their victims. Defense lawyers David Paoli and Kirsten Pabst were so worried about the potential impact of Lisak’s testimony on the jury that they filed a pretrial motion to prevent him from testifying, but Judge Karen Townsend denied it, and Lisak was allowed to appea...r.
Prosecutor Joel Thompson began by asking Dr. Lisak about “misconceptions about rape”—rape myths. When people hear the term “rapist,” Lisak said, many of them “think of a guy in a ski mask, wielding a knife, hiding in the bushes, breaking into a home. And it’s a scary image, and it does happen, but…the vast majority of rapes, well over eighty percent, are actually non-stranger rapes.” One of the other myths, he added, was the widely held belief that “a non-stranger assault is less serious and has less serious harm, but the research shows that victims of non-stranger assault are equally affected as victims of stranger assault.”
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