Statistics

These statistics are mainly published by the UK gov’t. Where ‘male’ or ‘female’ have been used we are quoting the statistic and recognise these are cis-normative terms. We could not find any statistics about GNC or Trans people and can only hope funding and resources are more inclusive in the future.

  • 1 in 5 women aged 16 – 59 has experienced some form of sexual violence since the age of 16 (A)
  • Males Are More Likely To Suffer Sexual Assault Than To Be Falsely Accused Of It (F)
  • Approximately 90% of those who are raped know the perpetrator prior to the offence (A)
  • In 2011, males accounted for the vast majority of offenders found guilty for sexual offences (99.0%) (B)
  • In 2011, (where ethnicity is known) 87.8 % of sexual offenders cautioned were White (compared with 85.8 per cent of offenders of a known ethnicity for all cautions) (B) p29
  • 87% of the UK population are White

 

  • 95 per cent of all Rape Crisis service users were female (A)
  • Where ethnicity is known, 27% of Rape Crisis services users were Black or Minority Ethnic, an increase from 23% in 2014-15 (A)
  • Women from ethnic minorities face specific challenges to accessing support, which means they are 40% more likely than white British women to stay with an abusive partner for five years or more. (G)
  • 23% of all service users identified as Disabled (A)

 

  • Only around 15% of those who experience sexual violence choose to report to the police (A)
  • “It is widely recognised that rape is under-reported, with many more rapes committed than are reported to and recorded by the police.” Crime statisticians estimate that the number of actual rapes is about six times greater, which if true would mean that the proportion of people actually convicted for rape is tiny. (C)
  • Conviction rates for rape are far lower than other crimes, with only 5.7% of reported rape cases ending in a conviction for the perpetrator. (Kelly, Lovett and Regan, A gap or a chasm? Attrition in reported rape cases, 2005) (A)
  • July 2011, Crown Prosecution Services 
For a period of 17 months there were 5,651 prosecutions for rape and 111,891 for domestic violence (117,542 total). 35 prosecutions for making false allegations of rape, 6 for false allegation of domestic violence and 3 for false allegations of both rape and domestic violence (44 total). The report shows that a significant number of these cases involved young, often vulnerable people. About half of the cases involved people aged 21 years old and under, and some involved people with mental health difficulties. In some cases, the person alleged to have made the false report had undoubtedly been the victim of some kind of offence, even if not the one which he or she had reported. (D)
    meaning     44 ÷ 117,542 ≈ 0.03743%
    0.03743% of reported cases for rape and domestic violence were false

FURTHER READING

Violence Against Women – Fact Sheet YWCA

Reported rapes in England and Wales double in four years, Oct 13 2016

Who gets convicted if a rape is reported?

SOURCE

(A) Rape Crisis England & Wales headline statistics 2015-16 
http://rapecrisis.org.uk/statistics.php

(B) An Overview of Sexual Offending in England and Wales 
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/214970/sexual-offending-overview-jan-2013.pdf

(C) The report (by Crown Prosecution Services released Oct 13 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/13/reported-rapes-in-england-and-wales-double-in-five-years)

(D) Crown Prosecution Services
 https://www.cps.gov.uk/publications/research/perverting_course_of_justice_march_2013.pdf

(E)https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/ethnicity-in-the-uk

(F)https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/false-rape-accusations_n_6290380

(G) LAWA (Latin American women)
http://lawadv.org.uk/

 

What we know about false rape allegations