Nineteen Harvard University law professors have denounced the film for (among other faults) misrepresenting the case of Harvard law student Brandon Winston, whose life was put on hold after a night of drunken, drug-fueled sexual contact resulted in his expulsion from the university and criminal charges. The 'Amazing Lie at the Heart of a Movie Claiming to be a Documentary' It goes to extraordinary lengths to paint the alleged assailants in these cases as perfect examples of Lisak's model rapist, implying that these men are repeat offenders who plan out their crimes and drug their victims.īut in reality, it's far from clear that The Hunting Ground's accused rapists are even actually guilty-let alone serial sociopaths who stalk and incapacitate their victims.

The Hunting Ground covers two high-profile sexual assault disputes in great detail. LeFauve's new article examining Lisak's misleadingly constructed video interview with a rapist here.) (Read Reason's multi-part expose on the research underlying Lisak's dubious theory here, here, and here, and see Linda M. On Sunday night, CNN will air The Hunting Ground-a work of activist propaganda disguised as a documentary about sexual assault on American college campuses.Īmong its numerous faults, the film blames the campus rape problem on a plague of serial rapists expert opinion on this matter comes courtesy of psychologist David Lisak, whose misleading interpretation of his flawed research on serial predators is given center stage throughout the film.

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