jeudi 26 janvier 2023

Why are rape & sexual offence conviction rates so low?

The conviction rates (as in getting a guilty verdict at court, which is different from the detection rate, which is how many crimes are reported by the police for prosecution) for rape and sexual offences is traditionally very low and the government is determined to drive them up.

https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-even...tinues-to-fail

"In England and Wales, more than 99% of rapes reported to police do not end in a conviction. This is the result of a criminal justice system that makes prosecuting rape extremely rare, lengthy and difficult.
At present, charge rates for rape vary wildly between regions, from 1.3% in Surrey to 8.2% in Durham."

An ONS survey has revealed a reason for that, which is rarely discussed;

https://twitter.com/DannyShawNews/st...46056614285314

"A sample of sexual offences recorded by police show that 22% and 31% of rapes took place over a year before the incident was recorded."

There is no other crime, where the victim so often waits so long to report what happened. In between time, evidence is lost, memories fade and get distorted and then this;

"Cases take, on average, 817 days to reach court, and 63% of cases are closed because the victim has given up on the process and withdrawn from it."

How many of that 63% had already waited over a year to report the crime?


via International Skeptics Forum http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=364163&goto=newpost

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