According to a survey conducted in the United Kingdom in 2022, the most common type of online abuse experienced by victims was cyberbullying, with 51 percent of respondents stating they had faced this type of harassment. Overall, 36 percent of respondents said that they had been trolled, and a third reported being victims of cyberstalking. Additionally, almost a fifth of those asked reported having experienced doxing.

According to a survey conducted in the United Kingdom in 2022, 39 percent of women who had been victims of online abuse, said that they had experienced cyberstalking. Additionally, 31 percent of female respondents stated they had been subjected to cyber flashing. Overall, men were more likely to have experienced online hate motivated by sexual orientation, with one in ten male victims of online abuse having been harassed in this way.

According to a survey conducted in the United Kingdom in 2022, 63 percent of online abuse victims reported that the abuse came from strangers, whilst almost a third of victims said that the harassment came from friends or acquaintances. Additionally, 18 percent of victims said that partners or ex-partners were the perpetrators.

A study conducted in the United Kingdom in 2022 found that cyberstalking lasted for longer than two years for over 40 percent of victims. For 22 percent of victims, their experience of cyberstalking lasted between one and two years. Overall, other forms of online abuse continued for less than one month for a quarter of all victims in the UK. Furthermore, 75 percent of people reporting this crime were women.

According to a report conducted in the United Kingdom in 2020, 50 percent of white women and 46 percent of Black and minority women said they had experienced abuse based on their gender. Additionally, 42 percent of Black and minoritized respondents of color reported having experienced abuse based on their ethnic background. Black women and women of color were also more likely to be targeted by online abuse based on their religion and gender identity.

Data from the 10- to 15-year-olds’ Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) on the prevalence and nature of online bullying.

Domestic abuse numbers, prevalence, types and victim characteristics, based upon findings from the Crime Survey for England and Wales and police recorded crime.

A study conducted in the United Kingdom in 2022 found that 65 percent of victims of online abuse were dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with the response they received from internet companies after reporting it. Overall, 16 percent of victims of online abuse in the UK were satisfied with the response from internet companies after reporting it.

Data from across the government on responses to and outcomes of domestic abuse cases in the criminal justice system.

According to an online survey conducted in England in 2022, 21 percent of LGBT+ identifying teenagers reported having experienced online abuse multiple times, whilst a further 21 percent reported having experienced online abuse once. Overall, 41 percent of respondents stated they had been the target of online harassment.

According to a survey conducted in 2023 in the United Kingdom (UK), 60 percent of girls and young women aged between 11 and 21 years reported worrying about the negative impact of being online on their mental health. Overall, 54 percent of respondents stated that fear of abuse made them feel less free to share their views.

The spreadsheets contain aggregate statistics for abusive language found in tweets to UK politicians in 2019. An overview spreadsheet is provided for each of the months of January to November ("per-mp-xxx-2019.csv" where xxx is the abbreviation for the month), with one row per MP, and a spreadsheet with data per day is provided for the campaign period of the UK 2019 general election, with one row per candidate, starting at the beginning of November and finishing on December 15th, a few days after the election ("campaign-period-per-cand-per-day.csv"). These spreadsheets list, for each individual, gender, party, the start and end times of the counts, tweets authored, retweets by the individual, replies by the individual, the number of times the individual was retweeted, replies received by the individual ("replyTo"), abusive tweets received in total and abusive tweets received in each of the categories sexist, racist and political.Two additional spreadsheets focus on topics; "topics-of-cands.csv" and "topics-of-replies.csv". In the first, counts of tweets mentioning each of a set of topics are given, alongside counts of abusive tweets mentioning each topic, in tweets by each candidate. In the second, the counts are of replies received when a candidate mentions a topic, alongside abusive replies received when they mentioned that topic.The data complement the forthcoming paper "Which Politicians Receive Abuse? Four Factors Illuminated in the UK General Election 2019", by Genevieve Gorrell, Mehmet E Bakir, Ian Roberts, Mark A Greenwood and Kalina Bontcheva. The way the data were acquired is described more fully in the paper.Ethics approval was granted to collect the data through application 25371 at the University of Sheffield.

Domestic abuse numbers, prevalence and types, by region and police force area, using annual data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, police recorded crime and a number of different organisations.

Stalking experienced by women and men, including numbers, type and personal characteristics, based upon annual findings from the Crime Survey for England and Wales.

The DAHLIA-19 ('Domestic Abuse Harnessing Learning Under Covid 19') was a research study of policy and practice responses to domestic abuse during the Covid-19 pandemic in four jurisdictions - Australia, Ireland, South Africa and the United Kingdom (UK, covering England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland). All are upper or upper/middle income countries with established domestic abuse services. The overall purpose of DAHLIA-19 was to investigate policy and practice responses to domestic abuse in different jurisdictions during the crisis to harness learning to inform recovery. Data were gathered for this research between November 2020 and December 2021. The fieldwork was largely desk based with interviews and consultations conducted by telephone or online. Data were gathered in each jurisdiction from a range of sources including documents, interviews with policy and practice stakeholders and experts, and surveys. In each country a 'mapping study' was completed, followed by a more in-depth case study. The findings of all four jurisdictions are also presented in an international synthesis report.

National responses to domestic abuse under COVID-19 across all jurisdictions were of four key types:

• Resources: strengthening pre COVID-19 strategic approaches to domestic abuse;
• Collaboration and cooperation: technologically facilitated developments improving multi-sector ways of working;
• Innovation and adaptation: in direct service delivery and community-led innovations
• Working with perpetrators: new developments

This dataset relates to quantitative information about sexual offences, their reporting and prosecution, which has been abstracted from the Annual Criminal Justice Statistics for England and Wales 1918-1970 (Command Papers series). The dataset was created as part of the ESRC-funded project ES/M009750/1 ‘Historicising “historical child sexual abuse” cases: social, political and criminal justice contexts’. This research project will carry out rapid deck-based research, using very significant sets of online sources that are already available in digital form, but whose potential for research into the history of child sexual abuse has not been realized. It will cover four significant areas: (1) We will construct quantitative profiles of the extent of the reporting and convictions of sexual offences from 1918 to 1990, making use of the published Criminal Justice Statistics for England and Wales; (2) We will carry out a qualitative longitudinal study of the role of the national and local newspaper press in reporting cases of child sexual abuse, and in shaping social attitudes towards young people and sexuality in the period 1918-1990. The newspaper press was a crucial arena through which public opinion was shaped and shifting moralities were discussed and debated for much of the twentieth century. Whilst the press cannot be viewed as an unproblematic barometer of opinion, it provides historians with an important lens through which to access a range of viewpoints and to chart dominant tropes and narratives. A survey of the newspaper press also enables us to access reports of the decisions that were made in the court-room and thus to further explain the trends for reporting and conviction that analysis of the criminal justice statistics reveal; (3) We will examine the shifting viewpoints of key professional groups, including social workers and lawyers, by undertaking a survey of publications associated with these occupational groups; (4) We will begin a mapping of organisations, bodies and associations who have commented on and campaigned around issues relating to children and sexuality across the broad period 1918-1990. This initial mapping will involve research into the availability of archival and manuscripts sources (including those held in the National Archives and local repositories) and will form the basis of a further funding application. Our time-table is designed to coincide with the undertaking of the public enquiries and the preparation of the further report relating to the NHS and Department of Health Investigations. We will run seminars/workshops for civil servants, lawyers and other professionals involved in these investigations, and make our findings available in a free and easily accessible format as briefings on the History & Policy website. Thus our project will provide essential knowledge to shape discussion, debate, and inform the final public inquiry reports. Data was collected from the Annual Criminal Justice Statistics for England and Wales 1918-1970 (Command Papers series), sourced through ProQuest House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, http://parlipapers.chadwyck.co.uk.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/home.do, accessed January – March 2015.

A study conducted in the United States and the United Kingdom between 2019 and 2021 found that the majority of online hate speech came in the form of slurs and tropes, with over 61 percent of online hate speech being of this manner. Overall, 30.8 percent of online hate speech took the form of violent threats, and over seven percent were images.