Originally Posted by
Mikkonen
The amount of women who were subjected to sex crimes were at 3% in 2016. You can't explain that with law changes.
When you literally change the definitions that define what "sex crimes" are, and broaden them, that's exactly what explains it.
There's been no law changes that would increase reported sex crimes. There's been law changes that could affect data on rape, yes. But it does not affect victimization studies where people are asked if they have been subjected to a sexual crime.
The number of reported rape offences has increased over the last ten years (2006-2015). The increase can be partially explained by the entry into force of new sex offence legislation on 1 April 2005. This legislation entails, among other things, that certain acts which were previously classified as sexual exploitation are now classified as rape. The effect of the statutory change appeared in the statistics such that the number of reported offences in respect of sexual coercion and exploitation declined in the years immediately following the statutory change while the number of reported rapes increased. As from 1 July 2013, the sex offence legislation was again made tougher; among other things rape was expanded to include cases where the victim reacts passively.
https://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-englis...-offences.html
Since you like BRA sources, there you go. You are objectively, factually wrong. The laws were changed in statistically significant ways in both 2005 and 2013.