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NEW DATA SHOWS that the overwhelming majority of suspects in cases of violent crime reported in 2018 were men.
Figures on serious crime published today by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that 98% of detected cases of sexually violent crimes involved male suspects that year.
Almost one in five suspected offenders for detected sexual violence crimes (19%) were under the age of 18 when the crime took place.
A person is recorded as a suspected offender when they have been deemed responsible for the crime by gardaí and have been issued with a sanction such as a charge, summons or caution.
The data also showed that 87.5% detected homicides for the same year involved male suspects. And 80.5% of suspected offenders of detected physical assaults and related offences in 2018 were men.
The CSO release also contained statistics relating to victims of crime in 2019. Although 59% of victims of reported physical assault and related offences were men that year, 81% of reported sexual violence incidents were women.
Meanwhile, almost a quarter 24% of sexual violence crime reported to gardaí in 2019 referred to incidents which took place ten or more years prior to being reported.
And almost four out of every five (79.8%) detected sexual violence crimes involved a male suspected offender and a female victim.
The CSO data was sourced from Pulse, the garda’s administrative crime database.
It is the first time that statistics relating to suspected offenders of detected crime has been published.
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Stuff like this shouldn’t have to happen. Every case you hear about just makes my stomach turn. Many lives are uprooted- sometimes permanently, because of one persons actions. More awareness on this subject should be brought to schools, and offenders in jail for longer.
This is very worrying for the future… Teaching a child the principles of bodily autonomy and consent needs to begin as early as possible, consent needs to be absolutely drilled into children, it doesn’t have to be a conversation aboit sex until they are beginning to discover sexuality. The problem is that consent isn’t spoken about until kids are in their teens, at which point they’ve been absorbing violent porn on the Internet for a few years, it’s far too late. Parents need to teach their boys (and girls!) that consent is everything, porn is unrealistic and that sex is something that should only ever happen when enjoyed by both partners. We have to be mature about this, it’s the only way to reduce attacks.
This article only mentions the % of men and women – what about the other 63 genders?
@Ned Gerblansky: watching too much American right-wing stuff dude. Come back to Ireland.
Well that’s some depressing reading.
People can be banned from social-media for wrong think, why not porn?
@Pat Coyne: why not porn what? What’s your point?
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