FOI reference: FOI-2025-2639
You asked
I wish to receive the information on the number of convicted perpetrators per ethnicity for the following:
- Sexual assault on female
- Sexual assault on female child under 13
- Sexual assault on males
- Sexual assault on male child under 13
- Rape of a female under 16
- Rape of male under 16
- Rape of female over 16
- Rape of male over 16
- Sexual activity with a child under 13
- Human trafficking for sexual exploitation
- Sexual grooming
The data must be over the last 5 years and included the latest data available, closest records to 2024 as possible.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Unfortunately, we do not hold data on the demographics of perpetrators of crime. Our publications and data concern crime as it is experienced by victims, or as it is recorded by the police. We do not produce statistics or details on the offender.
However, we have published some data on defendants and offenders of sexual offences for year ending December 2017 as part of the 2018 'Sexual offending: victimisation and the path through the criminal justice system' release within the Ministry of Justice appendix tables available on the ONS website.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) are primarily responsible for data on offenders. They publish Statistics each quarter and the MoJ's outcomes by offence data tool: June 2024, both available on the MoJ website. It allows you to filter by various categories including; offence group, ethnicity and other breakdowns. If you have any questions, the MoJ may be able to help you further and can be contacted at CJS_Statistics@justice.gov.uk.
If you have any other questions, please email us at crimestatistics@ons.gov.uk and we will endeavour to help.