By Gillian C. Mezey

Sexual offences account for just under 1% of all to other life-threatening traumas. There is some notifiable offences and have been increasing over evidence that rape is more pathogenic than any the past decade (Home Office,1993).However, the other form of violent crime (Kilpatrick et al, 1987). The term 'rape trauma syndrome' was first used official statistics on rape prevalence grossly underestimate the extent of the problem; many cases of non-consensual intercourse are not in the 1970s to describe a range of psychological, cognitive, emotional and behavioural responses to reported or prosecuted; about one-third of victims.

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (1997), vol. 3, pp. 197-203