We call for major changes to police and prosecutor work practices, a Special Commission on juries, wraparound victim support, and research on which women don’t report rape and why.
Despite the high prevalence of rape and sexual abuse and the increase in reporting in recent years, prosecutions and convictions have dropped to the lowest since records began.
Home Office figures suggest that rape complainants now have a 1 in 70 chance of a complaint made to the police resulting in a charge, let alone a conviction.
This represents a truly unprecedented crisis in rape prosecutions.
