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Rape reporting statistics in the US

The inconsistencies and challenges in determining the number of women who report being raped in the United States, due to underreporting and varying data sources.

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Jan 29, 2026
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Which U.S. states or industries have the highest reported cases of human trafficking and forced labor?

Reported cases in U.S. data sets concentrate geographically in large-population and travel-hub states—consistently naming , and among the highest in raw reports—while analyses that adjust for populati...

Jan 15, 2026
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How do different cultures define and report rape, and what impact does this have on statistics?

Different cultures define rape differently—legal codes and social norms shape whether marital rape, non-penetrative acts, or coercion without physical force count as rape—which changes what gets measu...