FBI Rape Definition for Crime Data Needs Broadening, Panel Says
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The definition of rape in U.S. crime statistics compiled by the FBI should be broadened, a panel of outside advisers recommended.
Rape data also should include anal and oral sex regardless of the gender of the victim or suspect, the advisers concluded at a closed-door meeting on Oct. 18 in Baltimore, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said yesterday on its website. The current definition includes only vaginal intercourse.