1 in 5 women in the US have been raped. You know someone who has been raped.
Only 2-8% of rape accusations are false. This is in comparison to the 50% that college students surveyed estimated were false. This is rape culture. Where rapists are protected and victims are perceived as liars.
Women ages 16-19 are 4 times more likely to be raped. Female college students ages 18-24 are 3 times more likely than other women to be raped.
60% of inmate sexual violence is perpetrated by prison or jail staff.
46% of bisexual women report being raped in their lifetime.
12-34 is the age range of people most likely to be sexually assaulted.
70% of rapes are committed by someone the victim knows.
American Indians are twice as likely as other races to be victims of rape/sexual assault.
1 out of every 10 rape victims are male.
33% of women who are raped contemplate suicide.
Approximately 70% of rape or sexual assault victims experience moderate to severe distress, a larger percentage than for any other violent crime.
37% of survivors experience family/friend problems, including getting into arguments more frequently than before, not feeling able to trust their family/friends, or not feeling as close to them as before the crime. Rape isolates you.
More than 50% of the sexual contact between inmate and staff members—all of which is illegal—is nonconsensual.
Both men and women who have been assaulted are more likely to report frequent headaches, chronic pain, difficulty sleeping, limitations on activity, and poor physical and mental health.
Only 12 percent of female rape victims were assaulted when they were 10 or younger, but almost half of female victims said they had been raped before they turned 18. About 80 percent of rape victims reported that they had been raped before age 25.
About 35 percent of women who had been raped as minors were also raped as adults.
More than half of female rape victims had been raped by an intimate partner, and 40 percent had been raped by an acquaintance; more than half of men who had been raped said the assailant was an acquaintance.
At least 54% of rapes are not reported.
The following are reason why victims didn’t report:
20% feared retaliation
13% believed the police would not do anything to help
13% believed it was a personal matter
8% reported to a different official
8% believed it was not important enough to report
7% did not want to get the perpetrator in trouble
2% believed the police could not do anything to help
30% gave another reason, or did not cite one reason50% of rape perpetrators are 30 or older
57% of rape perpetrators are white.
In 2002, inmates convicted for rape only served on average 48 months or 4 years, even though their victims are more likely to have long lasting effects from the crime.
America Indian women have a 33% change of being raped in their lifetime.
97% of rapists have never been incarcerated.
80-90% of military rapes are not reported. Maybe that’s because 90% of the victims are dishonorable discharged, while 80% of the perpetrators who are discharged, are discharged with honor.
LGBT prisoners are 15 times more likely to be raped while incarcerated.
Some statistics for your consideration
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