"The statistics show that 90percentt of sexual or rape crimes are against women.
WASHINGTON — The federal government is changing its longstanding definition of "forcible rape" in compiling national crime statistics — expanding both the definition of victims, to include males, and the types of sexual assault that will be counted in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Report.
The same data also shows that several developed countries have higher per-capita incidences of rape (UN Office of Drugs and Crime, Statistics: Crime (2012)).
Until just a few weeks ago, when the federal government expanded its definition of rape to include a wider range of sexual assaults, national crime statistics on rape included only assaults against women and girls committed by men under a narrow set of circumstances.
Last month, a landmark study led by Unesco's head of gender research was published that re-examined the basis of national crime statistics, redefining rape as a violent crime and removing a cap on the number of incidents recorded by a single individual.
According to the university's crime statistics, 22 rapes were reported on-campus or in student housing in 2015, and four rapes were reported off-campus.
The number of reports has risen substantially since then, but most rapes never even appear in crime statistics.
National crime statistics show 92 women are raped each day in India, mostly in rural areas, though the figure is widely believed to be an underestimate.
The Thompson Reuters Foundation reported that while India has introduced tougher laws to punish sexual crimes since the high profile attacks, police statistics reportedly show that rape crime rose by nine per cent in 2014 on the previous year.
The revision to the definition of rape is only for the purposes of deciding what kinds of incidents will be included in the "rape" category of the F.B.I.'s compilation of national crime statistics.
Other elements of UCR's definition decrease the number of rapes that qualify for inclusion in its nationally distributed crime statistics report.
