Rape in the United States is defined by the United States Department of Justice as "Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any...

Marital rape (a form of partner rape, of domestic violence, and sexual abuse by a spouse) is illegal in all 50 US states, though the details of the offence...

inmates had been raped while incarcerated in the United States. A United States Department of Justice report, Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails...

Rape laws vary across the United States jurisdictions. However, rape is federally defined (even though individual state definitions may differ) for statistical...

In the United States, each state and territory sets the age of consent either by statute or the common law applies, and there are several federal statutes...

Statistics on rape and other acts of sexual assault are commonly available in industrialized countries, and have become better documented throughout the world...

Rape by deception is a situation in which the perpetrator deceives the victim into participating in a sexual act to which they would otherwise not have...

Crime has been recorded in the United States since its founding and has fluctuated significantly over time, with a sharp rise after 1900 and reaching a...

the rape kit is sealed and typically transferred to local law enforcement. In the United States, if the victim is undecided about reporting the rape,...

all women" in the United States suffered attempted rape or rape sometime in their lives. More than a third of the victims were raped before the age of 18...