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Statistics on rape and other acts of sexual assault are commonly available in industrialized countries, and have become better documented throughout the world.Inconsistent definitions of rape, different rates of reporting, recording, prosecution and conviction for rape can create controversial statistical disparities, and lead to accusations that many rape statistics are unreliable or misleading.
In a case control study, for example, of 191 adolescent girls (mean age 16.3 years) attending an antenatal clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, and 353 non pregnant adolescents matched for age and neighborhood or school, 31.9% of the study cases and 18.1% of the controls reported that force was used during their sexual initiation. When asked ...
Note that not all rapes are reported, and that not all legal systems count rape the same way, and the actual rates may differ starkly from the reported rates. This may give incorrect impressions about the real number of rapes in countries like Sweden. (Excludes sexual assault and attempted rape cases - see separate map for this)
-9, and -10 for a comprehensive picture of rape within a country, looking not only at reported prevalence, but also degrees of underestimation, issues of law, existence of enclaves of greater frequency of rape, strengths of taboos against reporting rape, and so forth.
A record high number of girls in high school have experienced sexual violence in the past year. New data from the CDC says in 2021, 1 in 5 (18%) of girls in grades nine through 12 grade ...
Peterborough sex abuse case; Plymouth child abuse case; Rochdale child sex abuse ring; Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal; Sexual abuse scandal in the English Benedictine Congregation; Telford child sexual exploitation scandal; Cases of sexual abuse within groups include: BBC sexual abuse cases; United Kingdom football sexual abuse scandal
Around the time of the 2012 attack, police were recording up to 25,000 rape cases a year across India, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). There were more than 31,000 ...
Reports of horrific sexual assaults on women have become familiar in India, where police recorded 31,516 rape cases in 2022, a 20% increase from 2021, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.