Female Victims of Violent Crime

Female Victims of Violent Crime

Violence, victim, race, age, crimes, weapons

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 offenders
Comparison of rape by a non-stranger 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
The NCS questionnaire and the reporting of rape

Figures
Trends in violent crime victimization for victims age 12 and older

Tables
1.Rate of crime victimization of men and women, by victim-offender relationship
2.Violence sustained by female victims, by victim-offender relationship
3.Victim-offender relationship in crimes of violence reported to the NCS, by sex
4.Type of violent crime reported to the NCS by female victims, by victim-offender relationship
5.Series and nonseries crimes, by victim-offender relationship for female victims.
6.Whether violent crimes were reported to the police, by victim-offender relationship for female victims.
7.Reasons why female victims reported violent crimes to the police, by victim-offender relationship
8.Reasons why female victims did not report violent crimes to the police, by victim-offender relationship
9.Average annual rate of violent victimization of women, by type of intimate victim-offender relationship and selected characteristics of victims
10.Weapons present in violent victimizations of women, by victim-offender relationship
11.The nature of the violence. the kind of injury, and the site of the medical care received by female victims of violent crime, by victim-offender relationship.
12.Self protective measures that female victims took during violent victimizations, by victim-offender relationship
13.Number of crimes, violent crimes, and rapes reported to the NCS
14.When and where the rapes pf women occurred, by whether the rape was completed or attempted
15.Average annual rate of completed and attempted rape,by selected characteristics of female victims
16.Average annual rate of completed and attempted rape, by residential, employment, and income characteristics of female victims
17.Average annual rate of rape, by family income and race of female victims
18.Reporting of rape of women to the police, by characteristics of the crime and the victim
19.Reasons why female victims of completed or attempted rape reported the crime to the police
20.Reasons why female victims of completed or attempted rape did not report the crime to the police
21.Race of offenders, by race of female victims of rape
22.Race of offenders, by race of female victims of rape and victim-offender relationship
23.Age of offenders in single-and multiple-offender rape of women
24.Age of female victims of rape with one victim and one offender, by age of offender
25.Weapon present in rape of women, by whether the rape was completed or attempted
26 Whether the rape was completed or attempted, by whether female victims took self-protective measures
27.Whether female victims of rape were injured, by whether they took self-protective measures
28.Injury and medical care received by female victims of completed or attempted rape
29.Incident characteristics of rape of women, by whether offender was a nonstranger or a stranger
30.Injury and medical care received by female victims of rape, by whether offender was a nonstranger or stranger
31.Characteristics of offenders in rape of women, by whether offender was a nonstranger or stranger
32.Female victims' reporting rape to the police, by whether offender was a nonstranger or a stranger

Harlow, Caroline (Ph.D)

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

1991

Booklet; 15 pages; black, red and white; text and tables

English

BCRW archive, U Box 6, folder "US Department of Justice"