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Huffington Post
JANUARY 2012
6th Day
[Photo: U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder]
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has revised the way the FBI defines rape, the first update to the federal definition in nearly a century.
The FBI's Uniform Crime Report has defined rape as the "carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will." This definition was narrower than the one used by many police departments around the country, and women's rights advocates said it led to the under-counting of thousands of s*xual assaults each year.
On Dec. 6, an FBI advisory board voted overwhelmingly to expand the definition, and FBI Director Robert Mueller said he would be accepting the recommendation.
"Rape is a devastating crime and we can't solve it unless we know the full extent of it," said Vice President Joe Biden, the author of the landmark Violence Against Women Act. "This long-awaited change to the definition of rape is a victory for women and men across the country whose suffering has gone unaccounted for over 80 years."
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