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Since 2010 there have been multiple high-profile prosecutions involving predominantly South Asian or Pakistani-origin defendants in child sexual exploitation cases—cases in Derbyshire, Huddersfield, R...
Recent Home Office police-recorded hate crime data for England and Wales show overall hate crimes rose modestly to 115,990 in the year ending March 2025 (excluding Metropolitan Police data), while oth...
Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) data for year ending March 2025 estimate 3.0% of females and 0.7% of males aged 16+ experienced sexual assault (including attempts) in the year — about 739,00...
The materials provided do not contain a direct statement of the UK (or England and Wales) recorded rape rate per 100,000 population for 2020–2024; instead they supply for financial years and survey pr...
Socioeconomic status and region shape the picture of sexual assault in the UK, but the clearest, most reliable published data focus on who is victimised (age, sex) and where offences are recorded rath...
Major national probability surveys that explicitly ask about a wide range of sexual behaviors include the U.S. National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior (NSSHB) and Britain's National Survey of Se...
Across the last two decades the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) has consistently produced substantially higher estimates of sexual assault prevalence than police-recorded crime, and analysts...
The most recent official and sector figures show police-recorded child abuse and child sexual abuse/exploitation (CSAE) offences at historically high levels: 26,299 police-recorded child cruelty/abuse...
The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) shows that sexual assault victimisation varies by ethnicity in some measures and by age in survey design, but publicly available summaries stress nuance: ...