Sentence examples for low rape from inspiring English sources
From the big things: pay inequality, female genital mutilation, a ridiculously low rape conviction rate, government policies which hit the poorest women hardest.
Lawyers and detectives believe the approach could be vital in helping to boost the stubbornly low rape conviction rate in England and Wales, where barely 6% of cases reported to police end in conviction.
The use of sexual violence is the same sort of thing as having a dangerous dog; it creates fear, it's non-traceable, and they are also taking advantage of low rape conviction rates even when there are witnesses," she said.
In a much-cited letter to the Guardian, Katrin Axelsson of Women Against Rape argued that Sweden's low rape conviction rate proved that Assange was being set up – in 2006, she claimed, only six people were convicted out of 4,000 reported.
My reservations regarding capital punishment as an effective deterrent or justifiable punishment aside, I share Indian journalist Nilanjana Roy's worry of the possibility that "it would make an already low rape conviction rate even lower, since judges would be unwilling to hand down such an extreme sentence except in the worst and most brutal cases".
Britain currently has the lowest rape conviction rate in Europe.
Those precious few who ask at all tend to check a school's reporting numbers, assuming that a low rate of rapes reported on a campus is a good sign.
Robberies also reached a 42-year low last year, rapes reached a 12-year low and the number of assaults was one-quarter of what it was in 1965, according to the reporting statistics.
There is nothing unusual about that, sadly, but such assumptions cannot be ignored when we look at the shockingly low rate of convictions in rape cases.
Using the hashtag #WhyWomenDontReport, which aims to to raise awareness about the startlingly low rates of rape reportage, McGowan detailed a prior assault.
Dr Hakim says: "Spain, where prostitution is legal, also has exceptionally low rates of rape".
