Rape statistics from NCVRW RESOURCE
◆ In 2010, victims age 12 or older experienced a total of 188,380 rapes or sexual assaults.
◆ In 2010, 91.9 percent of rape or sexual assault victims were female.
◆ Of female rape or sexual assault victims in 2010, 25 percent were assaulted by a stranger, 48 percent by friends or acquain- tances, and 17 percent were intimate partners.3
◆ In 2010, 49.6 percent of all rapes and sexual assaults were reported to law enforcement.4
◆ In 2010, forcible rapes accounted for 6.8 percent of violent crimes reported to law enforcement.5
◆ In 2010, 3.6 percent of arrests for all violent crime were for forcible rape.
◆ During fiscal year 2010, there were 3,158 reports of sexual assault involving military service members, representing a two percent decrease from fiscal year 2009. Of these reports re- ceived by Military Services, 2,410 were “unrestricted” reports, which is a four percent decrease from fiscal year 2009.
◆ Initially, the Military Services received 882 restricted reports involving Service members and U.S. civilians; 134 of these were converted from “restricted” to “unrestricted” reports.
In fiscal year 2010, 56 percent of unrestricted reports in the Armed Services involved service member-on-service member sexual assault.
In fiscal year 2009, victim compensation programs paid $32 million for forensic sexual assault exams.
In 2010, 40.3 percent of reported forcible rapes were cleared (usually by arrest) by law enforcement.
In a 2007 survey of 146 state and federal prisons, 4.5 percent of inmates reported experiencing sexual victimization. Ten facilities in the survey had victimization rates of 9.3 percent or higher, and six facilities had no reported incidents.
A recent study of a nationwide sample of 2,000 Latinas found that 17.2 percent of Latinas had been sexually assaulted at some point during their lifetime. The majority of these sexual assault victims (87.5 percent) of Latina sexual assault victims had also experienced another type of victimization (physical, threat, stalking, or witnessing abuse).
The forcible arrest rate decreased 56 percentage points be- tween 1991 and 2009, after peaking in the period from 1984 to 1991.14
What is is interesting--and appalling, Among other horrific stats here is this; In 2010, 49.6 percent of all rapes and sexual assaults were reported to law enforcement. Which means LESS THAN HALF of all rapes are reported.
And given the number of decreased arrests, Have rapes decreased, or have arrests decreased?
http://ovc.ncjrs.gov/ncvrw2012/pdf/StatisticalOverviews.pdf