Quote jamiemartin721 at 11 Nov 2015 3.04pm
My issue with this, generally revolves around the idea that the race of the victim and perpetrators, appear as the headline of the story, and imply a racial causal factor.
Note that when rapes involve white perpetrators, race is excluded in most cases from the summary, or if the victim is not white, and the attackers are, the issue of race will not typically be recorded so blatantly (in the UK).
Rape is almost predominately an offence of men on women, and we miss that factor entirely when we view it along racial profiles. One factor that will crop up in over 95% of sexual offences is that the perpetrator will be male, and the victim female.
Race is a handy deflection from the fact that 85,000 women (and around 12,000 men) will be raped in the UK in any given year, and significantly men will commit almost all 97,000 incidents.
But we always seem to try to find deflections from the fact that the problem lies with men (ie race, blaming the victim or mental illness) rather than tackle the fact that men are the issue here (not race, mental health etc).
97,000 offences a year, and we go out of our way to avoid thinking that maybe male culture factors might be the problem.