![]() The latter increase may in part be due to greater encouragement by the police to victims to come forward and improvements in police recording, rather than an increase in the level of victimisation.Īfter the initial recording of a crime, the police may later decide that no crime took place as more details about the case emerge. For example, while there was a 17 per cent decrease in recorded sexual offences between 2005//09, there was a seven per cent increase between 2008//11. Trends in recorded crime statistics can be influenced by whether victims feel able to and decide to report such offences to the police, and by changes in police recording practices. The majority of the other sexual crimes recorded by the police related to ‘exposure or voyeurism’ (7,000) and ‘sexual activity with minors’ (5,800). This reflects the fact that victims are more likely to report the most serious sexual offences to the police and, as such, the police and broader criminal justice system (CJS) tend to deal largely with the most serious end of the spectrum of sexual offending. This differs markedly from victims responding to the CSEW in 2011/12, the majority of whom were reporting being victims of other sexual offences outside the most serious category. The most serious sexual offences of ‘rape’ (16,000 offences) and ‘sexual assault’ (22,100 offences) accounted for 71 per cent of sexual offences recorded by the police. In 2011/12, the police recorded a total of 53,700 sexual offences across England and Wales. Frequently cited reasons for not reporting the crime were that it was ‘embarrassing’, they ‘didn’t think the police could do much to help’, that the incident was ‘too trivial or not worth reporting’, or that they saw it as a ‘private/family matter and not police business’ Only 15 per cent of victims of such offences said that they had done so. ![]() Extending this to include other sexual offences such as sexual threats, unwanted touching or indecent exposure, this increased to one in five females reporting being a victim since the age of 16.Īround 90 per cent of victims of the most serious sexual offences in the previous year knew the perpetrator, compared with less than half for other sexual offences.įemales who had reported being victims of the most serious sexual offences in the last year were asked, regarding the most recent incident, whether or not they had reported the incident to the police. Among males, less than 0.1 per cent (around 12,000) report being a victim of the same types of offences in the previous 12 months.Īround one in twenty females (aged 16 to 59) reported being a victim of a most serious sexual offence since the age of 16. It is estimated that 0.5 per cent of females report being a victim of the most serious offences of rape or sexual assault by penetration in the previous 12 months, equivalent to around 85,000 victims on average per year. The vast majority of incidents reported by respondents to the survey fell into the other sexual offences category. These experiences span the full spectrum of sexual offences, ranging from the most serious offences of rape and sexual assault, to other sexual offences like indecent exposure and unwanted touching. This represents around 473,000 adults being victims of sexual offences (around 404,000 females and 72,000 males) on average per year. Victimisation through to police recording of crimesīased on aggregated data from the ‘Crime Survey for England and Wales’ in 2009/10, 2010//12, on average, 2.5 per cent of females and 0.4 per cent of males said that they had been a victim of a sexual offence (including attempts) in the previous 12 months. ![]() Providing such an overview presents a number of challenges, not least that the available information comes from different sources that do not necessarily cover the same period, the same people (victims or offenders) or the same offences. The report is structured to highlight: the victim experience the police role in recording and detecting the crimes how the various criminal justice agencies deal with an offender once identified and the criminal histories of sex offenders. It brings together, for the first time, a range of official statistics from across the crime and criminal justice system, providing an overview of sexual offending in England and Wales. This is an Official Statistics bulletin produced by statisticians in the Ministry of Justice, Home Office and the Office for National Statistics.
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