Female Victims of Violent Crime

Female Victims of Violent Crime

crime, violence, law, police, rape, domestic violence, class, race, data

Contents

Introduction

Violence by intimates
Reporting violence by intimates to the police
Characteristics of women victimized by intimates
Characteristics of violence by intimates

Rape
When and where rapes occurred
Characteristics of victims of completed or attempted rape
Reporting rape to the police
Characteristics of the offenders
Comparison of rape by a nonstranger and by a stranger

Methodology

Special Information
How to interpret NCS data on rape and on violence by intimates
Comparing female and male victims of violence
Completed and attempted rapes reported to the NCS, by victim-offender relationship, 1979-87
The NCS questionnaire and the reporting of rape

Figures

Tables

Harlow, Caroline Wolf

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics

United States Department of Justice

1991

magazine format; 15 pages; black and white; text and tables

English

BCRW archive, U box 6, folder "United States Department of Justice"