Revenge porn

Freedom of Information Act Request No: 2022-0186 v2

Version Date: 04/03/2022

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information:

Information downloaded from Niche Crime Database for “Disclosure of private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress” for each year since 2015, including the age of the victim at the reported date and the outcomes to date.

Please can you provide the following information for the calendar years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021: 

The number of “revenge porn” crimes – 008/71, disclosure of private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress – logged by the force in each year 

Year	Crimes
2015	12
2016	34
2017	35
2018	46
2019	54
2020	64
2021	71
Total	316

 

	Victim Gender
Year	Female	Male	Not recorded	Total
2015	10	2	0	12
2016	19	14	1	34
2017	28	7	0	35
2018	39	7	0	46
2019	45	8	1	54
2020	51	12	1	64
2021	53	18	0	71
Total	245	98	3	316

- Of these, how many fell into the following victim age groups: under 18, 18 to 25, 26 to 29, 30 to 39, 40 to 49, 50 and over 

	Year
Age Group	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
under 18	2	4	2	2	1	6	8
18-25	2	14	16	23	15	21	20
26-29	1	3	5	9	6	10	13
30-39	4	9	5	5	17	13	15
40-49	1	1	6	4	7	8	9
50 and over	1	2	1	3	4	4	4
unknown	1	1	0	0	4	2	2
Total	12	34	35	46	54	64	71

 
- How many had a type 1 outcome (“Charge / Summons”)

- How many had a type 14 outcome (“Evidential difficulties: suspect not identified; victim does not support further action”)

- How many had a type 15 outcome (Evidential difficulties: suspect identified; victim supports action”)

- How many had a type 16 outcome (“Evidential difficulties: suspect identified; victim does not support further action”) 

	Year
Outcome	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Type 1	2	3	6	4	2	5	4
Type 14	0	4	4	3	5	11	7
Type 15	5	3	7	11	11	16	8
Type 16	2	13	13	18	22	20	27