Executive summary -- Recommendations and questions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reported sexual offences and prosecution outcomes --3. Improving police responses -- 4. Increasing the responsiveness of the criminal justice system -- 5. Reducing the stress of giving evidence -- 6. Making the system more responsive to the needs of children -- 7. The offence of rape and the meaning of consent -- 8. Changes to other sexual offences -- Appendix 1. Submissions received -- Appendix 2. List of offences -- Appendix 3. Alternative arrangements survey -- Appendix 4. Police training -- Bibliography