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| Table 40. | Number of violent crime victims per 1,000 persons, by type of crime, age group, and sex: Selected years, 1995 through 2008 |
| Age group and sex | 1995 | 2000 | 2002 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total violent crime |
Rape/ sexual assault1 |
Robbery | Assault | ||||||||||
| Total | |||||||||||||
| 16 to 19 years old | 107.7 | 64.3 | 58.2 | 45.9 | 44.2 | 51.7 | 50.1 | 37.0 | 2.2 | ! | 4.8 | 30.0 | |
| 20 to 24 years old | 78.8 | 49.4 | 47.4 | 43.0 | 46.9 | 44.2 | 35.2 | 37.8 | 2.1 | ! | 5.4 | 30.3 | |
| Male | |||||||||||||
| 16 to 19 years old | 125.0 | 74.4 | 58.4 | 54.7 | 54.0 | 53.7 | 55.8 | 46.5 | # | 7.8 | 38.6 | ||
| 20 to 24 years old | 88.2 | 56.6 | 56.7 | 44.5 | 58.8 | 46.8 | 35.6 | 33.9 | ‡ | 5.6 | 27.7 | ||
| Female | |||||||||||||
| 16 to 19 years old | 89.7 | 53.6 | 58.1 | 36.8 | 34.0 | 49.8 | 44.2 | 27.1 | 4.5 | ! | ‡ | 21.0 | |
| 20 to 24 years old | 69.5 | 42.2 | 38.3 | 41.6 | 34.8 | 41.6 | 34.7 | 41.7 | 3.7 | ! | 5.2 | 32.9 | |
| # Rounds to zero. | |||||||||||||
| ! Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is 30 percent or greater. | |||||||||||||
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. Either there are too few cases or the coefficient of variation (CV) is 50 percent or greater. | |||||||||||||
| 1Includes verbal threats of rape and threats of sexual assault. | |||||||||||||
| NOTE: Violent crimes include rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault. Violent crimes exclude murder because the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is based on interviews with victims and therefore cannot measure murder. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. | |||||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), Criminal Victimization in the United States, selected years, 1995–2008. |
