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Crime facts at a glance
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Teens and young adults experience the highest
rates of violent crime.
Violent crime rates
declined in recent years for most age groups.
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- Note: Violent crimes
included are homicide, rape, robbery, and both simple 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, 2008.
Victimization rate trends exclude 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.
- Additional information on
this topic can be found in Age
Patterns of Victims of Serious Violent Crime. For related data about homicide trends by age, see Homicide Trends in the U.S.
- 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.
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