Reforming rape-trial laws in Britain

In recent years, there has been a precipitous drop in the number of cases making it to court and this has suggested fresh failures in the criminal justice system. In the year to March 2016 there were 3,910 charges for rape; in the year to March 2022 there were 2,223.  It is not clear why charges have fallen so far. Some reckon that changes to the way the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decides whether or not to bring a case to court have played a part. Prosecutors have also become increasingly likely to ask to see everything on a complainant's phone, "making an already distressing process feel even more intrusive", according to one government report.
Reports of rape have increased exponentially, perhaps because the #MeToo movement has changed people's understanding of it: police recorded 69,905 cases of rape in the year to March 2022 compared with 36,334 sİx years earlier.
Overstretched officers seem less likely to conduct thorough investigations. A big backlog of cases has meanwhile led to long waits for a court date. Knowing the ordeal is likely to drag on prompts some victims to give up before their attacker is charged.

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