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Revenge Porn (643A/22)

Request

From April 2015 to the most recent data available and split into calendar yearly intervals.

  1. The number of under-18s who have been charged with the offence of ‘revenge porn’ -as recorded under Home Office code 008/71 Disclosure of private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress.

Please can the data be broken down for each calendar year by age group and gender of perpetrators

Boys:

  • 10-12
  • 13-15
  • 16-18

Girls:

  • 10-12
  • 13-15
  • 16-18

    2. Can you also provide the percentage for each age group, gender and year, of those who were found guilty following a prosecution.

Response

Please be advised that in relation to question 2 we are unable to provide prosecution data because this information is not routinely fed back into our systems and we do not have access to magistrates’ court data. Therefore, we have provided the total number of offences where the suspect is aged 18 and under, and then provided a further breakdown for the outcome. Please find this information attached.

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.

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