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@General Lighting 409590 wrote:

both real incidents and false allegations are more common today.

Rape more common these days? That would be a whole debate in its own right considering it wasn’t that long ago it was legal to force your wife to have sex with you. I spose in the tehnical sense it could be true but its more due to the fact that we would now define more things as rape perhaps?

@General Lighting 409595 wrote:

Marital rape was made an offence in the UK in 1992. Thats 18 years ago now. Even then people getting busted for it is rare.

This rise in offences is much more recent, it tends to tie in with the increased opening hours of alcohol-fuelled night time venues, and a backlash against feminism/womens rights which occured starting from the mid-late 1990s.

but in simple terms working out if its an increased reporting of such crime rather than a real increase is tricky is it not?

@General Lighting 409625 wrote:

The increased reporting started in the mid 1980s due to the advent of feminism/womens rights, and slightly better treatment of rape victims in some areas by the Police (it was notoriously bad in the 1980s) – particularly the recruitment of more female officers, the decline of “Life on Mars” type policing and the NHS working alongside the Police.

Yet the amount of incidents has still increased (particularly since 1999) and convictions have gone down.

🙁 :hopeless:

@General Lighting 409629 wrote:

its also worth looking at this in the wider context of violence against the person, especially linked to the night time economy which has also vastly increased and was going up even in better economic times.

And what gets reported to the Police, particularly amongst young people, is a fraction of what really goes on.

Makes me wish I hadn’t been to ill to keep up my criminology degree. It is a very interesting subject.