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<p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains records of the number of defendants
prosecuted and convicted, where the rape monitoring flag has been applied to the case.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A rape flag is applied at the onset of a case, and remains
in place even if the charges are subsequently amended or dropped. It follows that
there may be cases where a person was proceeded against for rape but convicted of
another offence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The CPS also records prosecution outcomes
according to Principal Offence Categories.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The CPS does
not record outcome by individual charge and is therefore unable to provide data in
respect of (a) as this would require the review of individual case files and incur
disproportionate cost. Likewise, it is not possible to distinguish between convictions
for rape and for other sexual offences and therefore it is not possible to provide
data in respect of (b).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(c) The way in which the CPS
recording system operates means only one principal offence category is assigned to
each case, and these are assigned in hierarchical order.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We
can provide data on those cases flagged as rape and finalised in the ‘offences against
the person’ principal offence category, however it is important to note that in such
cases, a conviction for the rape charge may have also been secured.</p><p> </p><p>
</p><p> </p><p>During each of the last five years the number and proportion of defendants
convicted, for cases flagged as rape and where the Principal Offence Category was
identified as ‘Offences against the Person’ is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Offences Against The Person Flagged as Rape</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td
colspan="2"><p><strong>2009-2010</strong></p></td><td><p>217</p></td><td><p>9.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td
colspan="2"><p><strong>2010-2011</strong></p></td><td><p>189</p></td><td><p>7.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td
colspan="2"><p><strong>2011-2012</strong></p></td><td><p>168</p></td><td><p>7.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td
colspan="2"><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p>197</p></td><td><p>8.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td
colspan="2"><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p>175</p></td><td><p>7.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td>
</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data Source: CPS
Management Information System</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(d) Each Principal Offence
Category includes a broad range of offences; some involving violence and some non-violent.
In order to establish the number of rape flagged defendants convicted of a non-violent
offence would require the review of individual case files which would incur disproportionate
cost.</p><p> </p>
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