of rape, sexual assault, down by about 75% since the FBI first kept records in the early 1970s. And victimization of children-- despite the scary headlines that we read about bullying and cyberbullying, the rate of victimization of children at school has come down as have rates of physical abuse and sexual abuse.
Because my dad was on a mission, he brought me back in Rwanda. So being in a victimization mode, it makes us, like, giving ourselves a justification of hating.
Thank God they were there to do it. But using victimization surveys it looks as if both of them have fallen by more than 50% over the last generation.
And until very recently, the interviews were only with people aged 16 and above, so it didn't include young people who have very high levels of victimization . But broadly speaking, that's what's happening to crime.
Thank God they were there to do it. And that's why those victimization rates have gone down.
But if you lived in the San Francisco Bay Area 120 years ago, what kind of law enforcement would you be experiencing? found a 79% reduction in the victimization of kids in the commercial sex trade.
So after rescuing hundreds of those victims and then sending about hundred of the traffickers to jail, what was the outcome after four years? The goal of the project was to try to achieve a 20% reduction in the victimization of kids in the commercial sex trade. But after four years, the auditors came back and measured and they found a 79% reduction in the victimization of kids in the commercial sex trade.
But if you lived in the San Francisco Bay Area 120 years ago, what kind of law enforcement would you be experiencing? And the goal of the project over a four-year period of time was to try to demonstrate a 20% reduction in the victimization of these kids.
in schools. Every opinion poll has shown a decrease in the percentage of people in western societies that approve of spanking. The rate of child abuse both physical and sexual has gone down since they were first measured in 1990. And the victimization of children in school by fights and other nonfatal crimes has also gone down since they were first measured. The gay rights movement has seen an increase in the number of states that have decriminalized homosexuality both nation states worldwide and states with in the United States of America.
things when I was doing the Facebook chapter -- Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Um-hum. Peggy Orenstein: that I, it's really easy to look at girls and victimization -- Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Yes. Peggy Orenstein: but while I was doing this chapter and we're gonna talk about bullying Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Um-hum.
stupid reasons, and it is just this bad decision in the moment, an overreaction to a fight, to an argument, and it wasn't planned. It's not some psychopath sharpening their knives, waiting for months to try and kill this person. And we don't like that because there's something called the victimization gap, which is that the impact of this extreme situation on the perpetrator, there's a huge gap between that and the impact on the victim and
But if you lived in the San Francisco Bay Area 120 years ago, what kind of law enforcement would you be experiencing? Well, outside auditors went in before the project began and sort of drew a baseline of how much victimization of children there was in the commercial sex trade.
And if we do that, will it actually then lower the amount of sex trafficking of kids in the city? So we had some outside auditors come in at the beginning and measure, well, how much victimization of kids is there in the sex trade before the project even begins. And then let's measure it four years later to see what the impact is.
The goal of the project was to try to achieve a 20% reduction in the victimization of kids in the commercial sex trade. But after four years, the auditors came back and measured and they found a 79% reduction in the victimization of kids in the commercial sex trade. And what you find is that those who brutalize the poor, and children especially, are not brave people.
How much of it is luck? 50 to 80%. And we're not talking about little traumas, we're talking about the big things-- natural disasters, major victimizations , physical traumas, assaults, et cetera.