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Police-recorded rape in England and Wales reached roughly 70–71 thousand offences in 2024 according to official datasets and widely‑cited compilations, but headline police counts and charity prevalenc...
Official police records show police‑recorded hate crimes in England and Wales fell from 147,645 in the year ending March 2023 to 140,561 in the year ending March 2024, a 5% decrease . Separate reporti...
Available reporting indicates UK police made roughly 12,000 arrests in 2023 for social-media or private-message communications captured under Section 127 (Communications Act 2003) and Section 1 (Malic...
Available reporting from The Times and summaries by organisations and commentators put the number of arrests in England/Wales for online communications offences at about 12,183 in 2023 — roughly 30–33...
Police-recorded rape and sexual offence reports in the UK have risen sharply over the last two decades even as the proportion of those reports that reach charging and conviction remains very low, prod...
UK courts have imposed a range of penalties for convictions arising from tweets and other social media posts: custodial sentences (including both immediate prison terms and suspended prison sentences)...
A cluster of recent UK prosecutions — notably the first jail terms for social media posts that stoked far‑right disorder — alongside a steady stream of local magistrates’ and CPS prosecutions, have ha...
Reforms have aimed to replace or modernise the overlapping, vague offences in section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 with a clearer, harm‑bas...
Available reporting shows UK police made roughly 12,000 arrests a year for “offensive” online communications around 2023, equivalent to more than 30 arrests per day, but those figures cover a broad mi...
Since 2015 the landscape for policing and prosecuting online communications has shifted from piecemeal statutory tweaks to a coordinated charging and prosecutorial framework: Parliament lowered eviden...
Conviction rates for rape in the UK are widely reported as very low relative to the number of recorded offences and reports — for example one compilation cites a 2.1% conviction rate for reported rape...
England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and EU member states all centre rape offences on , but statutory wording, evidential rules, gender scope, and the threshold for proving lack of consent var...
Leicestershire police reported the highest rate of communications‑related arrests per 100,000 population in 2023 — 83 per 100,000 — according to data collated by The Times and discussed in subsequent ...
Public reporting based on Freedom of Information responses shows the Metropolitan Police recorded the largest number of arrests for online communications offences in recent reporting, followed by West...
Official, centrally published figures that map arrests for online communications offences onto subsequent charges and convictions year-by-year from 2017–2024 do not exist in a single public dataset, s...
In 2024 hundreds-to-thousands of people in England and Wales were arrested for online communications judged “offensive,” “threatening” or otherwise unlawful under laws such as section 1 of the Malicio...
Reporting and analysis of 2023 enforcement against online speech in England focus on a mix of longstanding criminal statutes and the newly enacted Online Safety Act 2023; major cited statutes used in ...
The United Kingdom’s civil-rights framework is a patchwork of statutes, common law decisions and international treaties — notably the Human Rights Act 1998 that incorporated the European Convention on...