[lbo-talk] authentically working class

[John Thornton]

martin wrote:
>
> On Sep 12, 2008, at 4:37 PM, shag wrote:
>
>> booze.
>>
>> http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/forum/20/4winter2004/a_rapes.html
>>
>
> Weekends after the bars close. But the report still seems to use the 
> national estimates of reported violations, rather than determining 
> whether the intimate nature of alaska's primarily isolated small 
> communities affects the level of reporting upward.
>
> Granted, there can be some frightening drunks around fish processing 
> ports. My son just returned from doing a job in some oilfield guy's 
> hunting cottage up there, and he worked for a couple of trips aboard a 
> local shipping/fish buying boat to get to/from the job. He had stories 
> about some of the local fishing guys that seem to have given him pause 
> about returning to those parts.
>
> xx, martin 

The more personal nature of small towns would be likely to exert 
downward pressure on reporting.
Cops and PA would be more likely to tell a victim "Are you sure you want 
to ruin Joe's life with this accusation?" in a small town because of the 
personal connections you seem to think would encourage them to prosecute.
Remove any personal connection between PA, cops, victim, and perpetrator 
and you reduce the impetus to sweep it under the rug.
With regards to other crime reporting this phenomenon has been 
documented so I can't imagine why there should be an opposing tendency 
for one specific class of crime, sexual assault.

John Thornton