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Rape in Sweden
Rape in Sweden (våldtäkt) is a sexual offence under Brottsbalken Chapter 6, defined since 1 July 2018 by lack of consent, with negligent rape added; Sweden's high reported rape statistics reflect broad legal definitions and recording practices.
Rape in the United States
Rape in the United States: state-defined criminal offense with no single national definition. Measured by NCVS, NISVS, YRBSS, and FBI UCR; 135,755 rapes reported in 2017; marital rape exemption fully abolished by 2005.
Rape of males
Rape of males: non-consensual penetration of men and boys, including being made to penetrate. Covers prevalence (CDC: 1 in 31 men), male rape myths, disclosure barriers, psychological impact, and gender-specific rape laws.
Rape pornography
Rape pornography depicts rape or non-consensual sexual activity, usually simulated. Covered by UK extreme pornography law (possession offence extended 2015; CPS 2019 guideline excluded consenting-adult material); effects research shows weak, contested associations.
Rayful Edmond
Rayful Edmond III (1964-2024), D.C.'s biggest crack cocaine kingpin of the late 1980s, ran a 1,700-pound-a-month trafficking operation, dealt from prison, became a federal informant, and died at 60 before his planned release.
Red-light district
Red-light district: an urban area where prostitution and sex-related businesses are concentrated and visible, formal tolerance zones or informal clusters; examples include Amsterdam's De Wallen, Soho, and Leeds' managed zone.
Rettendon murders
Rettendon murders (Essex Boys, Range Rover murders): Tucker, Tate and Rolfe shot dead in a Range Rover at Rettendon, Essex, 6 December 1995; Steele and Whomes convicted in 1998 on supergrass Nicholls's evidence, still disputed.
Revenge porn
Revenge porn, also called non-consensual pornography or NCII, is the nonconsensual distribution of intimate images, part of image-based sexual abuse; distinguished by motive from general NCII and now criminalized by the US Take It Down Act and UK Online Safety Act.
Reynhard Sinaga
Reynhard Sinaga, Indonesian serial rapist and Britain's most prolific convicted rapist, drugged and raped men in Manchester 2015-2017; life sentence, 40-year minimum since 2020 appeal.
Richard Huckle
Richard William Huckle was a British child sex offender from Ashford, Kent, who abused children in Malaysia and Cambodia while posing as a volunteer teacher.
Richardson family murders
Richardson family murders: April 2006 killings of Marc, Debra, and Jacob Richardson in Medicine Hat, Alberta, by 12-year-old Jasmine Richardson and 23-year-old Jeremy Steinke; her sentence was capped at ten years under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Ring boy scandal
Ring boy scandal: allegations that WWF/WWE ring announcer Mel Phillips sexually exploited teenage ring crew boys in the late 1980s and early 1990s, leading to 1992 departures of Phillips, Terry Garvin, and Pat Patterson, and an October 2024 negligence lawsuit against WWE, Vince and Linda McMahon, and TKO under Maryland's Child Victims Act.
Rizzuto crime family
Rizzuto crime family, Montreal Sicilian Mafia clan founded by Nicolo Rizzuto of Cattolica Eraclea and led by Vito Rizzuto; Bonanno-linked, dominant in Quebec until the 2009–2013 war, Project Colisée, and Vito's 2013 death.
Robbery
Robbery is the taking of property from a person, or in their presence, by force or threat of force, a violent felony distinct from theft and burglary. Covers common law elements, Theft Act 1968, Hobbs Act, Stokeling, and US FBI/NCVS robbery statistics.
Robert Hadden
Robert Hadden, former Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian OB-GYN, sexually abused patients from about 1993 to 2012; convicted federally in 2023, sentenced to 20 years, with over $1 billion in civil settlements.
Robert Hendy-Freegard
Robert Hendy-Freegard, aka David Hendy, British con man born 1971 who posed as an MI5 agent, convicted of kidnapping, theft and deception in 2005, freed on appeal in 2009, later jailed in France in 2025.
Robert William Fisher
Robert William Fisher (born 1961) is an American FBI fugitive wanted for allegedly murdering his wife Mary and children Brittney and Bobby in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 10, 2001, then blowing up the house. Added to Ten Most Wanted in 2002 (#475), removed in 2021, never found.
Roberto Escobar
Roberto Escobar Gaviria, El Osito, Colombian accountant of the Medellín Cartel and older brother of Pablo Escobar; surrendered 1991, blinded by a letter bomb in prison, wrote The Accountant's Story, founded Escobar Inc., and demanded $1 billion from Netflix over Narcos.
Rochdale child sex abuse ring
Nine men were convicted in the Rochdale child sexual exploitation case in 2012. Later prosecutions and an independent review exposed wider abuse and repeated failures by police and public agencies.
Roman Polanski sexual abuse case
The Roman Polanski sexual abuse case is a 1977 California prosecution in which director Roman Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful intercourse with 13-year-old Samantha Geimer, then fled the United States in 1978.
Ronald Clark O'Bryan
Ronald Clark O'Bryan, known as the "Candy Man," was a Texas optician executed in 1984 for fatally poisoning his eight-year-old son with cyanide-laced Halloween candy in 1974.
Ronald Gene Simmons
Ronald Gene Simmons, also known as R. Gene Simmons, was an American retired Air Force master sergeant who killed 16 people, 14 of them family, near Dover and Russellville, Arkansas, December 22–28, 1987, the worst single-family mass murder in U.S. history; executed June 25, 1990.
Ronnie Biggs
Ronnie Biggs (Ronald Arthur Biggs), English Great Train Robber of August 1963; jailed 30 years, escaped Wandsworth 1965, lived in Rio de Janeiro 35 years, returned to UK 2001, freed 2009, died 2013.
Ross Ulbricht
Ross Ulbricht (born 1984), creator of the Silk Road darknet market as "Dread Pirate Roberts"; convicted 2015 on seven counts, sentenced to life, appeals failed, pardoned by Trump January 21, 2025.
Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal
Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal: abuse of at least 1,400 children in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1997–2013, exposed by the 2014 Jay report, followed by the Casey inspection, government intervention, and IOPC Operation Linden.
Ruby McCollum
Ruby McCollum, also known as Ruby Jackson, was a wealthy Black Florida woman who shot white state senator-elect Dr. C. LeRoy Adams in Live Oak in 1952.
Ruja Ignatova
Ruja Ignatova, the "Cryptoqueen," co-founded the OneCoin fake-cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, which took over $4 billion from millions of investors before she vanished in October 2017. She remains on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list.
Russell family shooting
The Russell family shooting, also called the Russell family murders, was a familicide in which Russell killed family members, then shot himself in the left lung and survived.
Russell Williams (criminal)
David Russell Williams (Russ Sovka), born 1963 in Cardiff, Wales, is the ex-colonel who commanded CFB Trenton and confessed in 2010 to murdering Jessica Lloyd and Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, two sexual assaults, and 82 fetish break-and-enters; sentenced to life with no parole for 25 years.
Sacra Corona Unita
Sacra Corona Unita (SCU), Italy's "fourth mafia," is a mafia-type organization founded in an Apulian prison in the early 1980s by Pino Rogoli, active in smuggling, drug trafficking, and extortion.