Sexual Offences – Rape and anonymity

What Are the Sexual Offences?

Rape, Defendant Anonymity and Human Rights: Adopting a “Wider Perspective”

For six months during 2010, debate raged over the UK Government's plan to grant anonymity to those accused of rape. This contentious public debate focused almost exclusively on rape-specific arguments for or against rape defendant anonymity, to the exclusion of broader criminal justice and human rights concerns. This resulted in an impoverished debate which, specifically, gave no consideration ...

Prosecution of rape and sexual assault.

reflected in the low numbers of successful convictions across jurisdictions. Research conducted in the last 20 years has highlighted that the majority of victims of sexual assault are female, most perpetrators are male, and a very small percentage of victims report this crime to the police.1 Media portrayals of ‘real rape’ present it as involving women being attacked outside their home, at nigh...

Sexual Assault and Rape Among College Students.

• Approximately 1 of every 6 US women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. Approximately 1 in 33 USmen has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape. • College-aged women are 4 times more likely to be sexually assaulted compared with any other age group. • Most sexual assault victims in college know their attacker. • Approximately 11% of male college st...

The Significance of Spermatozoa in Victims of Sexual Offences.

Factual information for the use of the doctor called upon to give evidence in court after examining the victim of an alleged sexual attack is considered on the basis of an extensive review of the literature and of years of experience by the staff of the Attorney-General's Laboratory for Ontario. This experience emphasizes the need for immediate examination of fluid from the vaginal pool for mot...