Serious violent crime
rates for both blacks and whites were well below rates of 10 years earlier.
Blacks
experience the highest rates of serious violent crime.
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Note: Serious violent
crimes included are homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
The National Crime Victimization Survey redesign
was implemented in 1993; the area with
the lighter shading is before
the redesign and the darker area after the redesign. The data
before
1993 are adjusted to make them comparable with data collected since
the redesign.
The adjustment methods are described in Criminal Victimization, 1973-95. Estimates for
1993 and beyond
are based on collection year while earlier estimates are based on data
year.
For additional information about the methods used, see Criminal Victimization, 2007.
Victimization rate trends excludes NCVS estimates for 2006 because
of methodological inconsistencies between the data for that year and
the data for other years. Changes to the NCVS and their impact upon
the survey's estimates in 2006 are discussed in the
Criminal Victimization, 2006 Technical Notes.
OMB mandated changes in the collection and reporting of race and ethnicity were
implemented in 2003. See Criminal Victimization, 2003 for more information on the
impact on survey estimates.
Sources: Rape,
robbery, and assault data are from the National Crime Victimization
Survey (NCVS). Ongoing since
1972, this survey of households interviews about
147,300 persons age 12 and older in 82,900 households each year about their
victimizations
from crime. The homicide data are collected by the FBI's Uniform
Crime Reports (UCR) from reports from law
enforcement agencies.
For related data about homicide
trends by race, see Homicide Trends
in the U.S. |
