Rape Support Group
If you or someone you know has been the victim of rape, this is the place to find support and get advice. If you want, discuss your experience, share your feelings, and meet others going through a similar situation.
Bottom line: we're winning!
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/2007prelim/
Rape increases in 2003-2004, but has dropped every year since then, down 4.3 percent in 2007.
From rainn.org:
Sexual assault has decreased by two-thirds since 1993. This continued downward trend indicates that tremendous progress has been made in the fight against sexual violence. The dramatic cultural shift in public awareness and attitudes about rape, combined with tougher crime policies, has resulted in great strides towards our goal of eliminating sexual violence, said Scott Berkowitz, president & founder of RAINN, the nations largest anti-sexual assault organization. Thanks to public education programs and media attention, Americans have come to understand that rape is a violent crime and should be treated as such. In fact, the FBI ranks it as the second-most violent crime, trailing only murder.
It is important to note that the 2006 NCVS survey cannot be directly compared to previous NCVS annual surveys due to a new survey methodology implemented by BJS. The new methodology was developed to better count the number of violent crimes in rural areas. While the new survey appears to show a large increase in sexual assaults, up from 191,670 in 2005, BJS attributes the increase to the improved methodology, not an actual increase in sexual crimes.
Because the new methodology mainly affected data only from rural areas, comparisons to prior years can still be made for urban and suburban areas. These show that the rate of sexual violence remained stable between 2005 and 2006. Urban and suburban areas experienced a total of 166,615 sexual attacks in 2006, an increase of less than 5% over 2005, which is not considered statistically significant.
Other NCVS findings reveal more promising news: The percentage of sexual assaults that were reported to police averaged 41.6% over the last five years. This is an increase of more than 35% from the reporting rate for the in 1993-1997. This is excellent news because reporting to the police is the most effective tool that exists to prevent future rapes; every time we lock up a rapist, we're preventing him or her from committing another attack.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/2007prelim/
Rape increases in 2003-2004, but has dropped every year since then, down 4.3 percent in 2007.
From rainn.org:
Sexual assault has decreased by two-thirds since 1993. This continued downward trend indicates that tremendous progress has been made in the fight against sexual violence. The dramatic cultural shift in public awareness and attitudes about rape, combined with tougher crime policies, has resulted in great strides towards our goal of eliminating sexual violence, said Scott Berkowitz, president & founder of RAINN, the nations largest anti-sexual assault organization. Thanks to public education programs and media attention, Americans have come to understand that rape is a violent crime and should be treated as such. In fact, the FBI ranks it as the second-most violent crime, trailing only murder.
It is important to note that the 2006 NCVS survey cannot be directly compared to previous NCVS annual surveys due to a new survey methodology implemented by BJS. The new methodology was developed to better count the number of violent crimes in rural areas. While the new survey appears to show a large increase in sexual assaults, up from 191,670 in 2005, BJS attributes the increase to the improved methodology, not an actual increase in sexual crimes.
Because the new methodology mainly affected data only from rural areas, comparisons to prior years can still be made for urban and suburban areas. These show that the rate of sexual violence remained stable between 2005 and 2006. Urban and suburban areas experienced a total of 166,615 sexual attacks in 2006, an increase of less than 5% over 2005, which is not considered statistically significant.
Other NCVS findings reveal more promising news: The percentage of sexual assaults that were reported to police averaged 41.6% over the last five years. This is an increase of more than 35% from the reporting rate for the in 1993-1997. This is excellent news because reporting to the police is the most effective tool that exists to prevent future rapes; every time we lock up a rapist, we're preventing him or her from committing another attack.
Although, interesting that they include this line "In fact, the FBI ranks it as the second-most violent crime, trailing only murder," but no one seems to want to prosecute rapes unless they're stranger rapes. I've thought this before - that rape is second only to murder.