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Scientist Publishes A List Of Known Harassers in Academia

The database only includes cases in which there is “an institutional finding of some sort of sexual misconduct,” Libarkin said. She finds the cases in news reports and by combing through Freedom of Information Act results from media outlets, among other sources.

The most surprising case? The man who hired a hitman to kill the woman who accused him of sexual misconduct. Luckily, the man was caught before the murder was carried out, Libarkin said.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t always happen. 

“I’m also surprised at how institutions… were unable to act to protect students or junior faculty,” she said. “There are multiple cases of people who murdered the people that they were harassing.”

Another startling finding was that about 30 percent of the harassers have been investigated on more than one occasion. The fact of being investigated did not deter them from harassing again. One of the goals of the online database is to reduce the cases in which a known harasser is passed from one university to another.