Description

The statistics of the National Institute of Statistics (INE) on the crimes of sexual aggression and abuse offer an overview of the incidence and characteristics of these criminal offenses in Spain. According to INE data, in 2020 there were 13,811 complaints of crimes against sexual freedom and indemnity, of which 2,045 were for sexual assaults with penetration and 11,766 for other types of sexual abuse. This research seeks to know through statistics the behavior of sexual assaults and abuse[1] of convicted people in Spain from 2015 to 2022. A characterization of the subjects by sex was carried out, a shapiro Wilk test, ANOVA, and in accordance with organic law 10/2022, the confidence limits of the mean were found, for the year 2024 a statistical forecast of sentences for future sexual assaults was made, it will be in 2024 of 76 and for 2025 of 78, continuing a trend of slight growth in the behavior of this crime in Spain.

[1] Sexual abuse is considered Sexual Assault as of October 2022.