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Rape & Sexual Violence
- Approximately 80,000 women suffer rape and attempted rape every
year (Walby and Allen, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking:
Findings from the British Crime Survey, 2004)
- Most women in the UK do not have access to a Rape Crisis Centre
(Map of Gaps)
- Conviction rates for rape are now at their lowest, far lower than
other crimes (Kelly, Lovett and Regan, A gap or a chasm? Attrition
in reported rape cases, 2005). Only 5.7% of reported rape cases end
in a conviction for the perpetrator
Further Reading
The
Crisis in Rape Crisis
Women's
Resource Centre and Rape Crisis England and Wales, March 2008