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1 results foundAuthor: Shannon, David Title: Child Rapes Reported to the Police: An Update and Comparison of the Years 1995-2008 Summary: It is widely accepted that the dark figure for sexual offences against children is very large. Since the 1980s, however, as the level of attention focused on children’s exposure to sex crime has increased, the number of sex offences against children reported to the Swedish police has also increased substantially, and continues to rise. In the context of the generally increasing trend in the number of reported sex offences against children, Swedish crime statistics show marked differences in the trends for different categories of sex crime. Since the mid-1990s, for example, and particularly subsequent to 2004, there has been a very marked increase in the number of child sex offences that have been registered by the police as suspected completed rapes. At the same time, the number of reported offences registered under the crime codes for sexual exploitation/sexual assault and attempted rape have followed somewhat different trends. It is likely that the variation in the statistical trends followed by different types of registered sex offences is due to a combination of different factors. One central factor, however, is that the Swedish sex crime legislation has undergone substantial changes since the mid-1990s, not least with regard to the way the rape offence is defined in the Swedish penal code. Against this background, this study has two principal objectives: • To illuminate possible changes in the type of reported offences that the police have registered as rapes against persons under the age of eighteen between the mid-1990s and the latter part of the 2000s. • To present a more detailed description of the incidents registered by the police as rapes against persons under the age of eighteen towards the end of the first decade of the 21st century – here the focus is directed primarily at age-based variations in the type of situations in which the offences have been committed, and in the nature of the relationships between perpetrators and victims. Details: Stockholm: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, 2012. 22p. Source: Internet Resource: English summary of Brå report 2011:6; Accessed March 21, 2012 at: http://www.bra.se/download/18.1ff479c3135e8540b2980002845/2012_Child_rapes_reported_to_the_police.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Sweden URL: http://www.bra.se/download/18.1ff479c3135e8540b2980002845/2012_Child_rapes_reported_to_the_police.pdf Shelf Number: 124628 Keywords: Child Sex OffensesChild Sexual Abuse (Sweden)RapeSexual Assault |