Survey of Sexual Assaults Survivors

FIGURE 6.2 REASONS FOR NOT REPORTING

Figure 6.2 is a horizontal bar graph that illustrates the reasons that respondents gave for not reporting their abuse to the police. The x-axis shows the proportion of total responses, ranging from 0 to 16. The y-axis shows the reasons for not reporting: fear of criminal justice system, fear of record disclosure, fear of impact on family, other, own negative experience with CJS, other women’s negative experience, perpetrator unlocatable/dead, fear of perpetrator, fear of impact on relationship(s).

The reason with the greatest proportion of responses was the fear of criminal justice system (15), followed by fear of record disclosure (13), fear of impact on family (11), other (11), own negative experience with CJS (8), other women’s negative experience (7), perpetrator unlocatable/dead (7), fear of perpetrator (6), fear of impact on relationship(s) (1).