Why don't women demand specialist courts to deal with rape?

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I don't understand this-males & females pay equal taxes but we know that only around 4% of the prison population is female. Therefore roughly 96% of inmates are male. We all pay tax. Women are completely failed by the justice system in so many ways but not having specialist courts to deal with men who rape/sexually assault women/girls just adds injury to insult. Women are forced to wait YEARS for a court date....we shouldn't have to. Is there any logical argument against specialist courts to deal with rape cases more urgently?

I completely agree.
There should be dedicated sexual assault courts to deal with the tiny number of cases that make it to court and to support more victims to put their trust in justice.

Watched Forensics: The Real CSI on BBC today and it covered a very vicious and violent beating and rape of a woman just outside a Birmingham train station. The perpetrator got 10 years. It’s good he was caught and convicted but 10 years feels so pathetic compared to the lifetime of trauma the victim is going to have to go through. I don’t understand why the sentencing guidelines are so low.

perhaps women need to withhold taxes or go on strike until there is a fairer system? I just don't understand why we put up with this.

Maybe I’m cynical but i’d just see another branch of courts to be another breeding ground for fucking women over. Look at how family courts treat women in 2026.
The system needs weeded out from the root, not given a different building for systematic misogyny to thrive in a new place.

We also need politicians to be bought-in and when they can’t agree between them on what a woman even is, well we’re fucked.

I agree OP but would prioritise a specialist police force for violent and sexual violence I think, plus a review of the balance of proof needed, allowing disclosure of previous convictions as well. That plus specialist court would be great

I would start with demanding that all sexual health clinics need to have rape kits, so they collect evidence instead of destroying it.

I would also give women the opportunity to report rapes so they are officially documented, but can say that they want no police follow up at the time and no action is guaranteed at the time.

Good ideas. Luckily, your second one has been around for awhile via the CSEW. It doesn’t rely on every girl or women reporting, they extrapolate from a the large sample size of their surveys. That’s how we know for a fact that rape is under-reported to the police.

I don’t think a specialist court would improve the conviction rate.
I don’t know what would, sorry I have no solution. Personally, I think men need to sort themselves out and just not rape? How hard is it?

I was horrified to hear today on the radio that if a woman was raped tomorrow, the trial will likely be held in 2030! That is totally unacceptable.

Aren't they currently trying to change the system so that if a sentence is likely to be short, it's done without a jury? To speed things up? I'm sure I saw a video of a female MP expressing support for this and sharing how she had to wait over 1000 days for her trial after she was raped

There’s an issue with the cost of public services at the moment. I actually think this is a great idea, a single specific demand that could be campaigned for. But at this time it would cause a load of complaints about the cost as well as the usual batshit crap annd sexism about how women want specific care paid for. Look at how midwifery has gone down hill even when compared to the general shitshow that is the NhS.

It was Charlotte Nichols MP and she was actually speaking against the plan to remove juries from some trials.

All of this.

Among the total re-think needed is an acceptance of A.I. assisted house arrest and updated medication regimes by implant. Probation/imprisonment terms and compliance would be far more effective, and cheaper, than a thousand pounds a week for conventional prisons.

The prisoner could be technologically prevented from viewing anything online, or communicating with companions, which might perpetuate the mindset or the behaviour which had caused the offence.

Where behaviour was influenced by drink or substances, or by an unrestrained impulse or inclination, then the implanted medication could encourage a calmness to the point of apathy if necessary. Apparently weight loss drugs cause an indifference to food. Other appetites must be capable of suppression.

Apparently there are also medications to make people averse to alcohol. Or, to quell any testosterone excess or mood swings which cause violent outbursts. Those whose crimes involve complex planning may be given whatever medication will make the thought process muddled.

In any case, the inability to wander the streets freely, for life, (though without costing taxpayers a thousand pounds a week) will make it impossible to get access to a child, for example. Constant monitoring on cctv could be screened with A.I., with anything of concern triggering a human monitor, presumably with police powers, to intervene at once.

And, there are body worn (or implanted?) methods to monitor blood.

Tiny tracking implants rather than old fashioned ankle tags would seem better to control any escape from house arrest, and to instantly trigger an alert to the nearest police car.

The only aim of a prison sentence is to safeguard the offender from opportunities AND inclinations to repeat the offence. Merely locking up and releasing, unchanged, cannot possibly achieve either of these aims. This is not in the interests of future victims, nor in the best interests of offenders.

Some have asked, in vain, for chemical castration, despairing because of knowing they will still be drawn to repeating the behaviour. There must be, and are, constantly improving methods to achieve behaviour- control by carefully balanced medications. But implant must be the only sensible method.

It's a fucking travesty that so few make it to trial. But the reasons why are several and not due to which court they're heard in.