"incidence of rape" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the occurrence or frequency of rape in a given population or area. Example: The government is concerned about the high incidence of rape in the city and has implemented new safety measures for women.
Infection rates are usually linked to the incidence of rape and other unprotected sexual incidents, especially in times of armed conflict and civil unrest.
Only the incidence of rape has increased.
Their primary goal was to reduce the incidence of rape.
The incidence of rape has dropped since then but is still numbingly high.
"By providing convincing evidence that spikes in the degree of partying at a university escalate the incidence of rape, our results suggest that efforts to avoid such spikes could serve to reduce the incidence of rape," they wrote.
Others link South Africa's high incidence of rape, especially of children, to the large numbers of men brought up in broken families in the 1970s and 1980s.
Even before the earthquake, figures for the incidence of rapes and sexual assault in Haiti were difficult if not impossible to come by.
On Monday, the Haryana Congress legislator Sampat Singh said, "Haryana has progressed economically, but it has not developed mentally and intellectually, leading to rising incidences of rape in the state".
Some deemed these measures insufficient in a country where classified advertisements still segregated job openings by sex, where state laws restricted women's access to contraception, and where incidences of rape and domestic violence remained undisclosed.
Intellectual Development Isn't Keeping Up With Economic Progress: Sampat Singh, a Haryana Congress legislator, said Monday, "Haryana has progressed economically, but it has not developed mentally and intellectually, leading to rising incidences of rape in the state".
