Rape Awarness Research

On Tuesday's lesson we learnt that we would be producing another short film in thursday's lesson, this has to be a public service advertisment in which we heighten rape awarness. The first step was brainstorming ideas, it was hard to set the theme as we know filming would take place in the middle of the day, meaning that the typical advert of a woman walking home from the pub and being attacked when it was dark had to be thrown out of the video, we then decided that the scene could suit being indoors, someone in our group lives near the school and she said we could film at hers. So once location was sorted all we needed to do was a storyline, we decided to carry on with the idea that danger can come to your house so we decided to make the attacker be a workman or plumber or something along those lines.
After this plan was formed we had to start making it realisitic, the hardest part of our project was the multiple costumes necessary to fulfill a plan to slowly change what the attacker was wearing, to indicate that danger can come from anyone, so as soon as we had some free time the group went down to drama to see if they had any costumes we could borrow some, we were in luck and the drama teacher lent us three costumes that would be useful for our film.
The next step after this was to do research into other rape awareness adverts, here is what i found:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHzwxfWTm6g
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmPBP-uP48s&feature=related
The final step in the research process is to get some statistics and facts that can be used in the advert to get the risk factor across to the audience, so i went searching online for some stats and here is what i come up with:

Home Office Study of Rape

Complete Sample of Cases	100% (n=483)
Crimed Cases	75%
Detected Cases	64%
Defendants Charged	31%
CPS Prosecuted	23%
Court Proceedings	21%
Conviction (All Offences)	13%
Conviction (Rape)	6%

• Over two-thirds of cases dropped out at the police stage and did not make it as far as the courts.
• One quarter of incidents initially recorded as rape were subsequently 'no-crimed' by the police.
• Cases where the complainant and suspect were acquaintances were most likely to be 'no-crimed'.
• Half of all the cases that were 'crimed' resulted in 'no further action' (NFA) by the police.
• Cases involving intimates were most likely to be NFA-ed or discontinued by the CPS.
• In the small minority of 'stranger rape' cases (only 12% of the full sample), where a suspect was identified the case was more likely to proceed to court than in those cases where the complainant and suspect were previously acquainted.

UK Data on Rape and Sexual Assault

Finding	Source	Method
1 in 4 women have experienced rape or attempted rape	Painter, 1991	Survey of 1,007 women in 11 cities, Northern England
1 in 7 women have been coerced into sex, rising to 1 in 3 among divorced and separated women	Painter, 1991	Survey of 1,007 women in 11 cities, Northern England
The most common perpetrators of rape are husbands and partners	Painter, 1991	Survey of 1,007 women in 11 cities, Northern England
97% of callers to Rape Crisis Lines knew their assailant prior to the assault	Rape Crisis Federation of England and Wales	Analysis of RCF members' records, England and Wales
The majority of perpetrators are known to the victim	Kelly et. al, 2005
During 2001 it is estimated that 190,000 incidents of serious sexual assault and 47,000 female victims of rape/attempted rape	Walby & Allen, 2004	British Crime Survey 2002