CHANGES IN RAPE OFFENCES AND SENTENCING
01 January 1991
CHANGES IN RAPE OFFENCES AND SENTENCING
refdoc August=1991
BOOKS/PAMPHLETS , User Ref = P64837 , Acc Date = 01-Jul-89
C Lloyd, R Walmsley, Home Office Research and Planning Unit
HMSO, 1989 52pp, tables (Home Office Research Study no.105)
RP64837A
Examines changes in the profile of rape offences through a
comparison of cases leading to a conviction for rape in 1973 and
1985. Looks at the ages of both offenders and victims and changes
in age profiles, the relationship between the victim and the
offender, nature and location of the offence, whether physical
violence was involved, previous convictions and sentencing.
Concludes that a far greater proportion of offenders in 1985 were
intimately known to the victim and that sentencing became severer
during the period.
sexual abuse, abuse, police
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