Stranger Not Main Danger ; As Part of a Campaign to Improve the Reporting of Rape, Police Have Launched a Sexual Offences Awareness Week. Crime Reporter Carl Eve Learns How Women Are More Likely to Be at Risk of Rape From Men They Know

Plymouth Evening Herald, The › August 07, 2009

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A WOMAN is more likely to be raped by a partner or former partner than by the stereotypical "rapist in the bushes", according to crime figures.

More than half of all sexual assaults are committed by current or former partners, while only 11 percent of serious sexual assaults were committed by strangers, according to research studying the British Crime Survey.

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Stranger Not Main Danger ; As Part of a Campaign to Improve the Reporting of Rape, Police Have Launched a Sexual Offences Awareness Week. Crime Reporter Carl Eve Learns How Women Are More Likely to Be at Risk of Rape From Men They Know

The study also found that, according to figures from the Rape Crisis line, 97 percent of callers knew the...

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