i have to turn to prof. dempsey. i was busy reading her background and i left her out very distinguished background. >> thank you, senator. >> associate professor at villanova, the university lecturer and tutorial fellow at oxford university, a tutor at the university of college in london, and teaches courses involving a feminist legal theory. we'll come to that but first your testimony. >> thank you, senator. thank you for convening this hearing. boeing last after so many distinguished and experienced witnesses leads me to a position where i agree. i will try to say something that perhaps we have not touched on quite as much before addressing specific issues, the wish to place our discussion into the larger context of the criminal justice system as a whole. the failure to report and investigate rate cannot be fully understood isolation from the failure of prosecutors to take great cases to trial, the federal jury to convict him of the federal judges to impose adequate sentences. each step in the criminal- justice sy

neill, prof. dempsey, this is a matter of enormous importance and i regret that we have not had more time today to do with actual justice. we have not begun to scratch the surface. we have had very distinguished panel. it is insufficient to say you have five minutes, in sufficient offs -- insufficient totally. senators are interrupting because we only have a few minutes to question. but that happens to supreme court nominees as well as you folks here today. it happens to everybody. it is my hope that we will stimulate some interest by police department in this subject. there're a couple of things that i can we can do. i think we can get the fbi to change its definition. we can get the fbi to change its survey. we have oversight on the fbi from this committee. i think the director will respond. there is a lot more to rape them is in that fbi definition has outlined. and it totally eliminates the issue as to what is going on in jails across the country as to the same sex rate. -- same-sex wairape. on the is