FOI Revenge Porn (0414-2022/23)

Request

1. Please provide data on how many 'revenge porn' crimes that were recorded 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

2. Please supply data on how many of the ‘revenge porn’ crimes recorded by 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)

3. For the period between June 2021 and July 2022, please provide data on how many recorded ‘revenge porn’ crimes 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

4. For the period between June 2021 and July 2022, please provide data on how many of the recorded ‘revenge porn’ crimes specifically included threats to share private photographs or films resulted in outcome types 1, 14, 15 and 16
5. Please supply data on the sex, ethnicity and age groups of victims of 'revenge porn’ crimes between Jan 2019 and July 2022. Please also supply this data specifically for those crimes involving ‘threats to share’ from June 2021 to July 2022.

Response

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1. Please see the below table for the number of ‘revenge porn’ crimes reported from 2019 to 2022.

Year	Number
2019	64
2020	101
2021	99
2022	45
Total	309

2. Please see the below table for the outcomes of ‘revenge porn’ crimes reported from 2019 to 2022.

Outcome	2019	2020	2021	2022
01-Charged/Summonsed	6	7	5	0
14-Evidential difficulties victim based – suspect not identified	2	4	12	3
15-Evidential difficulties prevent further action; victim supports police action	12	24	18	3
16-Evidential difficulties prevent further action; victim does not support police action	28	27	33	12
Total	48	62	68	18

3. From June 2021 to July 2022, 35 threats to disclose private photos were reported.
4. Of the 35 threats above, 16 were outcome 16, 4 were outcome 15, 3 were outcome 14.
5. Please see below for the victim data for the above reported ‘revenge porn’ crimes.

Ethnicity	Number
NS. Not stated	11
O9. Any other	1
W1. British	143
W9. Any other white background	3
Not Recorded	154
Total	312

 

Gender	Number
Female	236
Male	73
Not Recorded	3
Total	312

 

Age	Number
18-25	126
25-30	47
31-40	63
41-50	24
51-60	12
Under 18	38
Not Recorded	2
Total	312

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.