The hunting ground movie#

The absence of testimony from the accused is an understandable omission (though as the Rolling Stone articleвЂ™s rollback indicates, that can be a problem). The film also interviews experts like clinical psychologist David Lisak and вЂњConfronting Campus RapeвЂќ author Danielle Dirks. A later montage, framed as a mock advertisement, lists the penalties assessed against students found guilty by their universities, with asterisks and the words вЂњactual sanctionвЂќ emblazoned below the punishments.

One image juxtaposes the number of sexual-assault complaints at various universities with the lack of expulsions. The doc supplements the interviews with some startling graphics.

The hunting ground movie#

(Most stats helpfully include citations.) Late in the film, the movie charges that an officer and prosecutorвЂ™s loyalty to their alma materвЂ™s football team may have prevented them from aggressively pursuing a case. According to the movie, only 26% of rape reports lead to arrest, the sort of flyby statistic that cries out for more elaboration. A partial list of universities whose presidents declined to be interviewed is buried in the end credits. Athletes, who according to the percentages cited constituteВ a disproportionate number of assaulters, seem to get special protection, perhaps because athletics are a major source of money. Caitlin Flanagan of the Atlantic provides an explanation for why colleges might protect fraternities, whose members form strong institutional bonds and become a source of future donations. ItвЂ™s suggested that universities avoid going to the authoritiesВ because police reports create a public record of the incident. As in вЂњThe Invisible War,вЂќ one by one women (and occasional men) appear on camera with eerily similar stories, of how colleges downplayed the crimesвЂ™ severity or of the peer intimidation that followed after they came forward.ДЇormer faculty members talk of the pressures to be loyal to the institution. Harvard law student Kamilah Willingham recalls seeing the man she accused expelled and then reinstated. The women recount their own experiences of sexual assault:В Clark says her rape was compared by an administrator to a football game that she should have played differently. The filmвЂ™s central figures are Andrea Pino and Annie Clark, students-turned-activists who led a campaign to file a civil rights complaint against U.