2022/25364 - Revenge Porn
REQUEST
- Please provide data on how many 'revenge porn' incidents were reported in the calendar years 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 (to July)
Note: by 'revenge porn’, we mean sharing or threatening to share private sexual photographs or films without the consent of the person depicted and with intent to cause them distress, which is a criminal offence under section 33 of the 2015 Criminal Justice and Courts Act
- Please supply data on how many of the ‘revenge porn’ offences reported to the police in the calendar years 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 (to July) resulted in the following outcomes:
outcome type 1 (charged/summonsed)
outcome type 14 (Evidential difficulties: suspect not identified; victim does not support further action)
outcome type 15 (Evidential difficulties: suspect identified; victim supports action)
outcome type 16 (Evidential difficulties: suspect identified; victim does not support further action)
- For the period between June 2021 and July 2022, please provide data on how many reports of ‘revenge porn’ specifically involved threats to share private sexual photographs or films as opposed to incidents in which these photographs or films had already been shared
Note: The 2021 Domestic Abuse Act expanded section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act to include threats to share private sexual photographs or films without consent of the person depicted and with intent to cause them distress.
- For the period between June 2021 and July 2022, please provide data on how many of the ‘revenge porn’ offences that specifically included threats to share private photographs or films resulted in outcome types 1, 14, 15 and 16.
- Please supply data on the sex, ethnicity and age groups of victims who reported 'revenge porn’ offences between Jan 2019 and July 2022. Please also supply this data specifically for those who reported ‘threats to share’ from June 2021 to July 2022.
Note: by 'revenge porn’, we mean sharing or threatening to share private sexual photographs or films without the consent of the person depicted and with intent to cause them distress, which is a criminal offence under section 33 of the 2015 Criminal Justice and Courts Act. The 2021 Domestic Abuse Act expanded section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act to include threats to share private sexual photographs or films without consent of the person depicted and with intent to cause them distress
RESPONSE
- Please provide data on how many 'revenge porn' incidents were reported in the calendar years 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 (to July)
Note: by 'revenge porn’, we mean sharing or threatening to share private sexual photographs or films without the consent of the person depicted and with intent to cause them distress, which is a criminal offence under section 33 of the 2015 Criminal Justice and Courts Act
To provide the data requested we have filtered to the offence ‘Disclose private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress’. We then checked each MO summary to see if it met the criteria for revenge porn as described above. The table above provides the number of recorded revenge porn offences where a victim was attached to the crime, any victims unknown or not included won’t be included in the total. The dates provided are from 2019 to the end of July 2022.
Please note that the data provided is based on the offence ‘Disclose private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress’ which includes those who have shared and those threatening to share private sexual photographs and films.
- Please supply data on how many of the ‘revenge porn’ offences reported to the police in the calendar years 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 (to July) resulted in the following outcomes:
outcome type 1 (charged/summonsed)
outcome type 14 (Evidential difficulties: suspect not identified; victim does not support further action)
outcome type 15 (Evidential difficulties: suspect identified; victim supports action)
outcome type 16 (Evidential difficulties: suspect identified; victim does not support further action)
The outcomes in this table are based on the above data in question one. The number of crimes that are showing as New are crimes that are still under investigation to date.
Please note that outcomes are completely dependent on what the officer has inputted onto the system, it is a manual process. If they have not manually updated this, then the information would not have been updated and won’t be correct.
- For the period between June 2021 and July 2022, please provide data on how many reports of ‘revenge porn’ specifically involved threats to share private sexual photographs or films as opposed to incidents in which these photographs or films had already been shared
Note: The 2021 Domestic Abuse Act expanded section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act to include threats to share private sexual photographs or films without consent of the person depicted and with intent to cause them distress.
To provide the data requested we have filtered to the offence ‘Disclose private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress’. We then checked each MO summary to see if it met the criteria for revenge porn that involves threats to share private sexual photographs and films. The table above provides the number of threats to share private sexual photographs and films, where a victim was attached to the crime, any victims unknown or not included won’t be included in the total. The dates provided are from 2019 to the end of July 2022.
- For the period between June 2021 and July 2022, please provide data on how many of the ‘revenge porn’ offences that specifically included threats to share private photographs or films resulted in outcome types 1, 14, 15 and 16.
The outcomes in this table are based on the above data in question three. The number of crimes that are showing as New are crimes that are still under investigation to date.
Please keep in mind that outcomes are completely dependent on what the officer has inputted onto the system, it is a manual process. If they have not manually updated this, then the information would not have been updated and won’t be correct.
- Please supply data on the sex, ethnicity and age groups of victims who reported 'revenge porn’ offences between Jan 2019 and July 2022. Please also supply this data specifically for those who reported ‘threats to share’ from June 2021 to July 2022.
Note: by 'revenge porn’, we mean sharing or threatening to share private sexual photographs or films without the consent of the person depicted and with intent to cause them distress, which is a criminal offence under section 33 of the 2015 Criminal Justice and Courts Act. The 2021 Domestic Abuse Act expanded section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act to include threats to share private sexual photographs or films without consent of the person depicted and with intent to cause them distress
The tables above provide a breakdown of sex, ethnicity and age group of the victim that is attached to the offence ‘Disclose private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress’. As requested, the first three tables provide the details for all ‘revenge porn’ offences and the bottom three provides detail only for threats to share private sexual photographs and films.