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From 2018-2022, rape prosecutions in Britain fell by a staggering 70 per cent, while successful charge rates are wildly disparate depending on locale, varying from as low as 1.3 per cent in Surrey, to 8.2 per cent in Durham.
The prosecution rate is presently so poor that several women’s rights organisations, including the Centre for Women’s Justice, have gone so far as to claim that in Britain, rape has been effectively “decriminalised.”
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