To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in each of the years 1980 to 1989 inclusive, how many men were (a) convicted and (b) cautioned for procuring, attempting to procure or being party to the commission of (i) buggery or attempted buggery with another man and (ii) gross indecency or attempted gross indecency with another man, contrary to (x) section 4 of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, (y) section 13 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 and (z) any other legislation; of the sum total of these convictions and cautions, how many relate to offences which took place in (A) a private place within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 and (B) a public or semi-public place within the meaning of the aforementioned legislation; and how many of these total convictions and cautions relate to offences committed by men (1) over the age of 21 years with men under the age of 21 years, (2) over the age of 21 years with other men also over the age of 21 years and (3) over the age of 16 years with other men also over the age of 16 years.
The table gives information on the number of men, by age, cautioned and convicted of procuring or attempting to procure or being party to the commission by a man of an act of gross indecency with another man and procuring an act of buggery between two other men. Only the age of the offender is recorded for buggery offences. It is not possible from the information held centrally to identify where the offence took place.
Male offenders cautioned and convicted of specific sexual offences by age group 1980 to 1989
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England and Wales
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Offenders
| Statute
| 1980
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| Men of or over age 21 procuring or attempting to procure or being party to the commission by a man under 21 of an act of gross indecency with another man | Sexual Offences Act 1956 section 13 as amended by the Sexual Offences Act 1967 section 3(2) | Cautions | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1— | 1— | 6 |
| Convictions | 25 | 34 | 25 | 27 | 18 | 98 | 37 | 32 | 45 | 69 | ||
| Men of or over age 21 procuring or attempting to procure or being party to the commission by a man not under 21 of an act of gross indecency with another man | Sexual Offences Act 1956 section 13 as amended by the Sexual Offences Act 1967 section 3(2) | Cautions | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 21 | 1— | 1— | 22 |
| Convictions | 108 | 80 | 109 | 89 | 168 | 237 | 146 | 196 | 270 | 265 | ||
| Men of or over age 17 procuring an act of buggery between two other men which by means of section 1(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 is not an offence | Sexual Offences Act 1967 section 4(1) | Cautions | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1— | 1— | 22 |
| Convictions | 2 | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | ||
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