Rape reports double while rape prosecutions decrease
 

Rape charges, prosecutions and convictions in England and Wales have fallen to their lowest levels in more than a decade.

The steep decline comes as the number of rapes recorded by the police has more than doubled over the past six years.

Figures released by the Crown Prosecution Service show convictions fell from 2,635 in 2017-18 to 1,925 in 2018-19, a drop of 26%. The number of prosecutions completed fell by 32% from 4,517 to 3,034, and the number of rape cases charged by the CPS declined by 37% to 1,758.
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https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019...el-in-a-decade

rape isn't against the law anymore, didn't you know?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matee...cEqcszXj9xJ_iG

people seem to care more about wanting to put women in jail for "lying" about rape than actual rapists and it's so annoying

Yup. Also the very very important 'innocent until proven guilty' only applies to the alleged rapist, as 'lies' is ths starting position on the victim.

And yeah rape is basically legal these days. Sorry but when you get victims literally taping their rapes and the rapist still goes free.it kind of shows a huge issue.

Honestly, I hate to think about it but if a (female) member of my family came to me saying they were raped, I think I would discourage them from reporting, because of how trials are. Usually, the victim gets more of a grilling than the alleged rapist for ****s sake..

I know some men get raped too, but the default doesn't seem to be 'liar' to men. Unless a celebrity is ivolved, in which case the rules bend slightly..

Anyway, rising reports just show more women desperate to lie about men just to make them look bad, or dragging themselves through cross examiniations that go on months because they regretted sleeping with someone..yadayada.

The way rape cases are carried out needs serious overhauling, as it stands the victim is put on trial just as much as the rapist and victim blaming is rife in the system. Too much bias and bull**** gets in the way of establishing one core fact that determines guilt or innocence, did the accused have consent? Everything else doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what the victim wore, what she had to drink, what she was doing prior to the crime happening, all that matters is consent and whether or not she gave it or was even in a position to give it.

As much as would be bad enough, but victims seem to be treat even worse than the rapist..the system is a joke. Then when a rapist finally gets convicted..tends to be very short sentences. As god forbid we 'ruin the young mans life' or whatever :umm2:

I've mentioned before on here about a rape case I sat through with a family member and this is so true. His barrister and all the witnesses brought up pretty much every sexual encounter she had ever had but previous complaints made about him plus cautions for violence against women were not allowed to be mentioned in court. After the case she always said she would tell anyone to not make a report of rape as its not worth it, she went through hell with the case and the **** she got of his family and friends.

Tbh I can have a bit of pity with the law when it comes to rape, because unless the rape has been recorded, or the victim is a Lesbian in a male to female scenario then it's gonna be hard to know who is telling the truth out of the alleged rapist or the victim, it's sad but it is also true.

The only thing that I don't get is why the sentencing is so short for convicted rapists? If they're convicted then they should be getting at least 20 years in Prison imo for committing one of the major crimes.

Rapes/victim trying to get away have been recorded and the guy has still been found not guilty. That girl in NI was crying and her clothes had blood on them (testimony by the taxi driver) and the men were still found not guilty

Were these men rich by any chance? Because that's how rapists can survive not being convicted if they've been proven to be guilty if you catch my drift.

That isn't how rapists survive not being convicted though, you are wrong about that, it may be true that rapists may pay victims not to press charges but inside the courtroom it has no bearing, rapists just get off alot

Well there's some corruption going on if blatant rapists aren't being convicted by the Jury nor the Judge.

The problem is quite often its one word against the other, juries seem to believe that if a girl has been drinking, wearing revealing clothes, has had previous sexual partners etc etc then she was somehow "asking for it" and so these rapists get off. Its ridiculous and so backwards. Even when there is physical evidence as Niamh has said, ripped clothing, bruising, blood......its just "rough" sex. The girl I went through a case with even had some of her close friends who questioned it......one girl asked her was it "just sex gone wrong?" No, it was rape....she said no, he did it anyway, that's not rough sex or sex gone wrong, its rape.

one of the problems is that character assassination has become the norm. People jump to judgement so easily because of the effect of social media. Personally, i think that's the root of so many problems that we now have.

We can say it's not right, but i don't know how it can be fixed.

Yep in a nutshell. People (and not just men either) still have this idea whether it's subconscious or conscious I don't know, that women are responsible for mens "urges", that what they wear, what they drink, where they go(did you go back to his house?) is a factor on whether or not she can claim to be raped because a simple No doesn't cut it

Saw on the news today how domestic violence in general is taken less & less serious, a guy already killed his partner yet was allowed to commit the crime again :crazy: .
System is messed up :bored: .

What do you expect when a man who battered his gf has just been given the highest honour possible yet still denies it despite the proof and conviction

Q and A explained fro the Guardian

Ikr What a great message it sends out , you can be violent & get away with it & you can commit more horrible crimes :crazy: .

That's why I get fed up of the system & these crime documentaries . I just get wound up at the senseless injustice.

if people don't get satisfaction within the law, it won't be long until they look for justice outside of it, particularly if they see some obvious bias in judgements

Sounds defeatism, but basically it seems men can pretty much do whatever they like, aslong as the victim is a woman. The amount of men I have heard about over the past year who have killed women and used 'sex game gone wrong' as an excuse, and got away with it is utterly insane. Thats the new go to excuse, and judges are lapping it up. Some people consent to kinky stuff, I don't think it should EVER be accepted that someone consented to being killed (basically even if they outright consent to being killed, they still have not consensted as being in the frame of mind where you would consent to that, means you are mentally incompetant tbh). There needs to be a line, and there currently is not. BDSM people keep kicking off when this is discssed, but tbh I care more about dead women than about someones kink. If there was a law on the topic, it wouldnt affect consensual BDSM partners at all anyway, unless they also went too far and killed someone, noone would know what they were doing in their bedroom..and honestly, regardless of what kink you are into, it should always be classed as too far if it ends in serious injury or death tbh. A law would just mean abusive people couldn't cry 'but bdsm!' when they hurt someone badly. Meanwhile, sensible BDSM partners have nothing to fear, unless they also go too far on someone one day, in which case, they deserve punishment.

Liberal feminsts, **** off with your 'kink shaming' or 'sex negative' accusations please. I don't give a crap and will always prioritize womens safety over appearing 'right on'. Thanks.