"rape rate" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it in a sentence such as, "The rape rate in the United States has been steadily increasing."
Where the American rape rate fell 60% in 20 years, the college rate remains the same.
The epidemic is aggravated by South Africa's exceptionally high rape rate.
Searches like "I was just raped" and "rape hot line" might help us measure a city's true rape rate.
Figures from the South African Police Service showed that the murder rate had dropped by 6.6percentt while the rape rate fell by 3.6percentt.
Women's groups said the case had increased awareness of rape in South Africa, where the reported rape rate is 114 cases for every 100,000 people, compared to a rate of 32 every 100,000 in the US.
The high rape rate is attributed to more women coming forward to report crimes, following the high profile gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in December 2013.
More civil complaints against individual rapists will mean higher costs for pattern offenders, lowering college rape rates.
Magnanti shows that, on the contrary, all the available evidence for Britain points to a sharp fall in rape rates in areas that introduce lap-dancing clubs.
What happened to this young woman happens each year to thousands of girls in South Africa, a country widely believed to have one of the world's highest rape rates.
There are a number of reasons as to why India has such high domestic violence and rape rates often associated with the legal system and conviction rates or the pressure place upon some victims to drop charges and in some cases marry the attacker.
The highest rape rates — those double or more the citywide per capita rate — cut two distinct swaths through the city, one across Harlem and into the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, and the other running southeast in Brooklyn from Bedford-Stuyvesant into East New York.
