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Credibility of Crime Allegations

Author(s) -

Frances Xu Lee,

Wing Suen

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

american economic journal microeconomics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.339

H-Index - 40

eISSN - 1945-7685

pISSN - 1945-7669

DOI - 10.1257/mic.20180231

Subject(s) - credibility , allegation , sexual misconduct , misconduct , false accusation , psychology , sexual assault , criminology , social psychology , political science , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , law , medicine , medical emergency

The lack of hard evidence in allegations about sexual misconduct makes it difficult to separate true allegations from false ones. We provide a model in which victims and potential libelers face the same costs and benefits from making an allegation, but the tendency for perpetrators of sexual misconduct to engage in repeat offenses allows semiseparation to occur, which lends credibility to such allegations. Our model also explains why reports about sexual misconduct are often delayed, and why the public rationally assigns less credibility to these delayed reports.

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