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1 Diane Craven, Female Victims of Violent Crime 1 (1996)

handle is hein.death/fvioc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Selected Findings December 1996, NCJ-162602 Female Victims of Violent Crime By Diane Craven, Ph.D. BJS Statistician Incidents of violence against women include murders, rapes, sexual assaults, robberies, and both aggra- vated and simple assaults. National estimates of the extent and nature of female victimization derive from two primary sources within the U.S. Department of Justice. The National Crime Victimization Sur- vey (NCVS), conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in conjunction with the Census Bureau, provides informa- tion about criminal events nationwide, including those not reported to law enforcement. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system com- piles data on crimes brought to the attention of law enforcement agencies nationwide. Currently, over 16,000 city, county, and State law enforce- ment agencies voluntarily submit agency-level summary reports of crimes within their jurisdictions. Together, these data shed light on dif- ferent aspects of female victimization. This report summarizes findings from several U.S. Department of Justice published reports focusing on the number of violent victimizations, rates of victimization, and the contexts in which the incidents occurred. National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system data* show that be- tween 1992 and 1994, the number of violent crimes committed against women reached almost 14 million: *Data on murders are reported in the FBI's UCR. Data on rape, sexual assault, robbery, and both simple and aggravated assault are from the NCVS. e an estimated 4.4 million in 1992 * 4.8 million in 1993, and * nearly 4.7 million in 1994. In 1994 there were 1 rape for every 270 women, 1 robbery for every 240 women, and 1 assault for every 29 women. For homicide - the least frequent - there was 1 female victim for approximately every 23,000 women 12 or older. From 1973 to 1994 the violent victimization rates of women and men converged In 1994 women were about two- thirds as likely as men to be victims of violence. Of the 10.9 million crimes of violence in 1994, 4.7 mil- lion were against women. The rate of victimization was 43 per 1,000 women about two-thirds the 60 vio- lent victimizations per 1,000 men. Twenty years ago women's likeli- hood of victimization was less than half that of men. The overall trend indicates that the rates of victimiza- tion for men and women converge - the rate for men decreasing and the rate for women remaining rela- tively stable or increasing. Rates of violent crimes (including murders, rapes, robberies, and assaults) per 1,000 population 60 40 r-mae 0. 1973 1980 1990 1994 Figure 1 Sources: BJS, the National Crime Survey (NCS) data, 1973-92 and the NCVS data, 1992-94, for rape, robbery, and assault; FBI, UCR data for homicides. The 1973-91 rates were adjusted for com- parability to data collected under the rede- signed survey method, 1992-94. See BJS, Criminal Victimization, 1994, April 1996, NCJ-1 58022.

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