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Israel does not ban DNA testing outright; Israeli law tightly regulates genetic tests, requires them to be done in accredited labs and generally limits at‑home or ad‑hoc tests, and treats judicial aut...
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...
ONS Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) provides the most reliable prevalence estimates by ethnicity: CSEW tables (notably Table 4 and Table 2/5 in the Sexual offences prevalence and victim char...
Recent reporting and FOI-based analyses show foreign nationals are disproportionately represented in some UK sexual‑offence statistics: Centre for Migration Control/press reporting says foreign nation...
There is for how many Muslims are in prison in Europe today; available data are fragmented by country and use differing methods of identification, so national snapshots are the best available evidence...
Israel’s Penal Law criminalizes a wide range of sexual offenses against minors, sets the baseline age of consent at 16 with close‑in‑age and conditional exceptions, and prescribes penalties that vary ...
UK official systems do not provide a straightforward, nationally comparable statistic that directly contrasts crime rates of migrants versus native-born people, so public claims vary widely in accurac...
Official data and reporting show clear ethnic disparities at multiple points in the criminal‑justice process in London: arrest rates for Black people in London have been reported at far higher levels ...
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...
Official statistics for England and Wales show in criminal justice contact by ethnicity: Black people are arrested at higher rates than White people, and ethnic minorities are over-represented at mult...
Recent reporting and freedom-of-information returns show police activity under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 has surged to roughly 1...
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) publishes operational data that includes ethnicity of suspects/defendants but states that its ethnicity collection followed the Criminal Justice System’s 16+1 self‑...
Reporting and advocacy pieces have repeatedly claimed that a large share — sometimes “about half” or “almost two-thirds” — of transgender prisoners are convicted sex offenders, but official data are s...
Since 2010 the UK has seen : prosecutions and charges have increased in recent years while reported conviction-rate indicators fluctuate and remain constrained by low charge rates and case attrition. ...
The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), published and summarised by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), shows that reported sexual assault victimisation varies across ethnic groups but th...
Available sources show arrests for offensive online communications in England have been reported at roughly 12,000 per year (about 30 arrests per day reported by The Times for 2023), while prosecution...
A series of high-profile UK prosecutions in 2024–25 led to convictions for online hate speech and offensive communications, producing outcomes from fines to multi‑month prison terms; notable examples ...
UK authorities and prosecutors now routinely treat a wide range of online communications as potential criminal offences: custody and arrest data cited by multiple outlets show roughly 10–12,000 arrest...
Official UK crime statistics do not provide a reliable breakdown of offences by migration or nationality status; the Office for National Statistics (ONS) explicitly directs queries about offenders’ na...
In 2023 UK police recorded roughly 12,000 arrests for online communications offences under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 (about 12,1...