Abstract
This study aims to determine the magnitude and sociodemographic characteristics of victims of sexual offences reported at state tertiary care and referral hospital, Jaipur. The present study was carried out on 229 victims of sexual offences between the periods of 2008–2012. All the cases of sexual offences reported during the study period were cases of natural sexual offences committed on female victims except three cases of unnatural sexual offences, committed on male victims. The ages of victims in our study ranged from three to 40 years. The most affected age group was victims between 11–20 years (53.7%) followed by 21–30 years (25.7%). All the five admitted cases of sexual offences were children belonging to the age group 0–10 years. Majority of the victims were Hindu females (86.0%), unmarried (71.6%) educated up to secondary level (33.6%) and from middle socio economic status(52.8%). The majority of the victims were students (51%) followed by housewives (16.5%) and domestic workers (16.1%). The assailant knew the vast majority of victims (90.4%) and remaining were the strangers.
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