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False accusation of rape
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<p>A false accusation of rape happens when a person states that they or another person have been raped when no <a href="/facts/Rape/7RLDwHCN">rape</a> has occurred. Although there are widely varying estimates of the prevalence of false accusation of rape, according to a 2013 book on forensic victimology, very few reliable scientific studies have been conducted. </p><p>Rates of false accusation are sometimes inflated or misrepresented due to conflation of <i>false</i> with designations such as <i>unfounded</i>. Designations such as <i>unfounded</i> allow law enforcement to close cases without arriving at a conclusion and are used to describe cases without enough evidence, as opposed to <i>false</i> cases where the accuser is not credible or eventually admits that the accusation is untrue. </p>