Research

Today we were given the task to research Rape awareness and the different types of public service announcement that are shown. I started off by searching public service announcements online using youtube hoping that i would get a few ideas which i could use in our own one which we will be creating.

A lot of the Public Service announcement videos use celebrities or well known people to get the point across that these things can happen to anyone, like these ones each one respresenting a different topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg8QL9pOZe4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LWNJ1YNhgA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LsuJi33B2U
All the public service announcements focus on the hard facts and statitics along with the negative sides, which are effective because it gets the message across to people and makes them aware of whats going on.

Typing into google Rape awareness brought up this website http://www.gmp.police.uk/mainsite/pages/75280BA071FB5F9C802572D6004D3EB6.htm
which included facts and videos that were used as adverts to get the point across about rape and how it can happen to anyone and not to think that it wouldn`t happen to you.

Police recorded 53,540 sexual offences in England and Wales in the year ending March 2008. This represented a 7% drop over 2006-07 figures.
In 2007, there were 248,300 victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.
Approximately 2/3 of rapes were committed by someone known to the victim.173% of sexual assaults were perpetrated by a non-stranger.138% of rapists are a friend or acquaintance.128% are an intimate.17% are a relative.

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hors237.pdf
The 2000 British Crime Survey (BCS) was conducted in the first half of 2000, with the
majority of interviews taking place between January and April. Respondents were asked if
they had experienced an incident of sexual victimisation since age 16 and also ‘in the last
12 months’ (preceding the date of the interview).
• 0.9 per cent of women aged 16 to 59 said they had been subject to some form
of sexual victimisation (including rape) during the last year.
• 0.4 per cent of women said they had been raped in this period.
• In the year preceding the 2000 BCS it is estimated that 61,000 women were the
victim of a rape in England and Wales.