Deborah Tuerkheimer: ...that a credibility complex shapes all of us

Nobody Told Me!

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The vast majority of sexual abuse victims in this country are girls and women. Statistics show that most abusers are men and most sexual assault complaints never result in an arrest, much less charges, a prosecution, or a conviction. On this episode, we’ll take a look at the cultural and legal forces that ‘downgrade the credibility’ of sexual abuse survivors. Our guest is former special victims prosecutor and legal scholar Deborah Tuerkheimer who’s a leading authority on sexual violence. She’s the author of the new book, "CREDIBLE: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers." Her website is deborahtuerkheimer.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.1	I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.3	And I'm Jan Black.
0:15.7	The vast majority of sexual abuse victims in this country are girls and women.
0:20.9	Statistics show that most abusers are men and most sexual assault complaints never result
0:26.7	in an arrest, much less charges a prosecution or a conviction.
0:31.2	On this episode, we'll take a look at the cultural and legal forces that downgrade the
0:36.6	credibility of sexual abuse survivors.
0:39.2	Our guest is former special victims prosecutor and legal scholar Deborah Turkheimer,
0:44.1	who's a leading authority on sexual violence. She's the author of the new book,
0:48.5	Credible, Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers. Deborah, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for
0:56.5	having me. And thank you also for writing this book. It is so needed. Why did you decide to write it?
1:04.5	Well, thank you. I also feel like it's needed in this respect. We are here in the Me Too era and all sorts of stories of sexual assault and sexual
1:17.1	harassment are coming to the fore.
1:20.0	People are feeling more willing to share their experiences and share their accounts.
1:26.4	And that's all for the good. And yet, as a society,
1:30.4	as a culture, we still have real problems with responding to those stories. Certainly as a legal
1:37.7	system, we still have problems responding to these stories. And so my hope in writing this book is that readers would be given
1:47.2	a new understanding of how in our own individual lives, we can make a difference and we can do
1:54.4	better by survivors. Are there any standards right now for credibility? Well, it's such an interesting question because we judge credibility all the time.
2:07.1	We judge it when we speak to our friends and family members.
2:11.1	And certain people have professional responsibilities that require them to judge credibility.
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