FAST DEFENCE EUROPE

Targeting the young

Recently, the FAST Europe team have been targeting training towards groups of young women leaving home for the first time to go to colleges and universities, or on gap year travel.

The sad fact is that this is a very vulnerable group, statistically. With a little training and greater awareness we hope to make more of them safe.

Below are some of the statistics that have made us sit up and think. We hope that they make you think too.

TREND Rape of a female

Numbers of women reporting rape in the UK

UK Data on Rape and Sexual Assault
Finding	Source	Method
1 in 4 women have experienced rape or attempted rape	Painter, 1991	Survey of 1,007 women in 11 cities, Northern England
1 in 7 women have been coerced into sex, rising to 1 in 3 among divorced and separated women	Painter, 1991	Survey of 1,007 women in 11 cities, Northern England
The most common perpetrators of rape are husbands and partners	Painter, 1991	Survey of 1,007 women in 11 cities, Northern England
97% of callers to Rape Crisis Lines knew their assailant prior to the assault	Rape Crisis Federation of England and Wales	Analysis of RCF members' records, England and Wales
The majority of perpetrators are known to the victim	Kelly et. al, 2005
During 2001 it is estimated that there were 190,000 incidents of serious sexual assault and 47,000 female victims of rape/attempted rape	Walby & Allen, 2004	British Crime Survey 2002
Highest risk group is the 16-24 age range	Myhill and Allen	Home office report 2002
Rape conviction rate is less than 10% (of reported rapes)	Fawcett Society	2004 using official local crime figures
ChildLine took 8,637 calls last year about sexual abuse with 4,414 of those about rape.	NSPCC	2005 0800 telephone number records

The Aftermath of College Sexual Assault:

30% of rape survivors contemplate suicide after the rape.
82% of rape survivors say the rape permanently changed them.
The adult pregnancy rate associated with rape is estimated to be 4.7%.
Non-genital physical injuries occur in approximately 40% of rape cases.
Rape survivors often experience long-term symptoms of chronic headaches, fatigue, sleep disturbance, recurrent nausea.
Rape survivors often experience eating disorders and make suicide attempts after being raped. In addition, after being raped, survivors are 2 ˝ times more likely than the average woman to have a substance abuse problem.