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[0] HEARING OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORMS COMMITTEE SUBJECT: SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE MILITARY PART III: CONTEXT AND CAUSES CHAIRED BY: REPRESENTATIVE JOHN TIERNEY (D-MA) WITNESSES: VERONIQUE VALLIERE, PSY.D., PRESIDENT, VALLIERE AND COUNSELING ASSOCIATES, INC.; FRED BERLIN, PH.D., FOUNDER, THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY, PREVENTION,... (Part 8).

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HEARING OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORMS COMMITTEE SUBJECT: SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE MILITARY PART III: CONTEXT AND CAUSES CHAIRED BY: REPRESENTATIVE JOHN TIERNEY (D-MA) WITNESSES: VERONIQUE VALLIERE, PSY.D., PRESIDENT, VALLIERE AND COUNSELING ASSOCIATES, INC.; FRED BERLIN, PH.D., FOUNDER, THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY, PREVENTION, AND TREATMENT OF SEXUAL TRAUMA, DIRECTOR, THE JOHNS HOPKINS SEXUAL DISORDERS CLINIC; ELIZABETH HILLMAN, PH.D., J.D., LAW PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HASTINGS; HELEN BENEDICT, AUTHOR, "THE LONELY SOLDIER: THE PRIVATE WAR OF WOMEN SERVING IN IRAQ," PROFESSOR OF JOURNALISM, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LOCATION: 2247 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C. TIME: 2:00 P.M. EDT DATE: THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2009(Part 8)

But examples have to do with the fact that most of child abuse, for instance, is committed by people who are well-known to the child's family, acquaintances. And yet much of the legislation in the general public of reporting, of identifying individuals is centered around the idea they're somehow going to be unknown to others.

I think that the broad brush approach that's out there is another example of what I'm talking about. Years ago when we first started the so-called war on drugs, and I'm talking back in the '70s, people could get a 50-year sentence for an ounce of marijuana, because we didn't make distinctions about the various subgroups of people that existed that had difficulties (ph) with drugs. Or we have people now who are...

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