STATISTICS & STUDIES
Last updated 9/26/14.
Honestly, there are a lot of statistics out there. Not all of them, as we have found out, are reliable or presented in a truthful way.
Bureau of Justice Statistics:
Who: The Bureau of Justice Statistics was first established on December 27, 1979 under the Justice Systems Improvement Act of 1979, Public Law 96-157 (the 1979 Amendment to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, Public Law 90-351). Their mission is to "collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to federal, state, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded."
Definitions:
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Honestly, there are a lot of statistics out there. Not all of them, as we have found out, are reliable or presented in a truthful way.
Bureau of Justice Statistics:
Who: The Bureau of Justice Statistics was first established on December 27, 1979 under the Justice Systems Improvement Act of 1979, Public Law 96-157 (the 1979 Amendment to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, Public Law 90-351). Their mission is to "collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to federal, state, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded."
Definitions:
- Rape - Forced sexual intercourse including both psychological coercion as well as physical force. Forced sexual intercourse means penetration by the offender(s). Includes attempted rapes, male as well as female victims, and both heterosexual and homosexual rape. Attempted rape includes verbal threats of rape.
- Sexual assault - A wide range of victimizations, separate from rape or attempted rape. These crimes include attacks or attempted attacks generally involving unwanted sexual contact between victim and offender. Sexual assaults may or may not involve force and include such things as grabbing or fondling. It also includes verbal threats.
- In 2005-10, 78% of sexual violence involved an offender who was a family member, intimate partner, friend or acquaintance [Link]
- In 2005-10, about 58% of female victims of sexual violence suffered a physical injury during the attack, such as cuts, bruises, internal injuries, broken bones, gunshot wounds or rape injuries. [Link]
- About 38% of sexual violence was committed by a friend or acquaintance, 34 % by an intimate partner (former or current spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend) and 6% by a relative or family member. Strangers committed about 22 % of all sexual violence, a percentage that remained unchanged from 1994 to 2010 [Link].
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