Bureau of Justice Statistics
Age Patterns of Victims of Serious Violent Crime
July 1997, NCJ-162031

Violent crime rates by age 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 

Adjusted victimization rate per 1,000 persons, age 12 and older
		 	 					 

 								

Year 		Age of victim 	 	 	 	 	 	 

 		12-15 	16-19 	20-24 	25-34 	35-49 	50-64 	65+ 

 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 

1973 		81.8 	81.7 	87.6 	52.4 	38.8 	17.2 	9.1 

1974 		77.5 	90.6 	83.5 	58.6 	37.5 	15.5 	9.5 

1975 		80.3 	85.7 	80.9 	59.5 	36.9 	17.8 	8.3 

1976 		76.4 	88.8 	79.7 	61.5 	35.9 	16.1 	8.1 

1977 		83.0 	90.2 	86.2 	63.5 	35.8 	16.8 	8.0 

1978 		83.7 	91.7 	91.1 	60.5 	35.8 	15.0 	8.4 

1979 		78.5 	93.4 	98.4 	66.3 	38.2 	13.6 	6.2 

1980 		72.5 	91.3 	94.1 	60.0 	37.4 	15.6 	7.2 

1981 		86.0 	90.7 	93.7 	65.8 	41.6 	17.3 	8.3 

1982 		75.6 	94.4 	93.8 	69.6 	38.6 	13.8 	6.1 

1983 		75.4 	86.3 	82.0 	62.2 	36.5 	11.9 	5.9 

1984 		78.2 	90.0 	87.5 	56.6 	37.9 	13.2 	5.2 

1985 		79.6 	89.4 	82.0 	56.5 	35.6 	13.0 	4.8 

1986 		77.1 	80.8 	80.1 	52.0 	36.0 	10.8 	4.8 

1987 		87.2 	92.4 	85.5 	51.9 	34.7 	11.4 	5.2 

1988 		83.7 	95.9 	80.2 	53.2 	39.1 	13.4 	4.4 

1989 		92.5 	98.2 	78.8 	52.8 	37.3 	10.5 	4.2 

1990           101.1 	99.1 	86.1 	55.2 	34.4 	9.9 	3.7 

1991 		94.5   122.6   103.6 	54.3 	37.2 	12.5 	4.0 

1992           111.0   103.7 	95.2 	56.8 	38.1 	13.2 	5.2 

1993           118.4   114.2 	91.2 	57.9 	42.1 	17.0 	5.6 

1994           113.0   120.5 	97.7 	60.4 	39.1 	15.1 	5.1 

 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 

Note: Violent crimes included are homicide, rape, robbery, and
both simple and aggravated assault. The light gray area
indicates that because of changes made to the victimization
survey, data prior to 1992 are adjusted to make them comparable
to data collected under the redesigned methodology.  The
adjustment methods are described in Criminal Victimization
1973-95.