A<unk>  happens when a person says they have been raped when no rape has occurred. In a 2010 study of 136 reports of sexual assault investigated by a university police department, 8 (5.9%) were coded as<unk>  reports, 61 (44.9%) did not proceed to any prosecution or disciplinary action, 48 (35.3%) were referred for prosecution or disciplinary action, and 19 (13.9%) contained insufficient information to be coded. According to a 2013 book on forensic victimology, the true percentage remains unknown due to the varying definitions of a<unk><unk> ". Rates of<unk><unk>  are sometimes inflated or misrepresented due to conflation with terms such as unfounded. These designations, which allow law enforcement to close cases without arriving at a conclusion, are used to describe reports without enough evidence, as opposed to cases where the accuser is not credible or says that the account is untrue. With regard to racism in the United States,<unk>  have been made by White women against African American men, with the Whites having greater influence in the judicial system, often resulting in wrongful convictions. Such incidents have historically led to extrajudicial acts of violence such as lynchings.
False accusation of rape
Marital rape
Corrective rape
Female infanticide
Sexual assault
Hospitalism
Genocidal rape
Gang rape