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Murder in Large Urban Counties, 1988
This BJS Special Report represents almost 10,000 prosecuted murder defendants and more than
8,000 murder victims in the Nation's 75 most populous counties in 1988-- about half of the
Nation's murder arrestees for that year and just under half of the murder victims. The study,
which summarizes the circumstances of the murders, found that 80% of the murder victims knew
their killers, 16% were related to their killers, and 52% had a romantic or social relationship with
their murderers. About a third of the female victims and a tenth of the male victims were killed by
a spouse or romantic partner. About 75% of the victims were male, just over half were black, and
nearly half were ages 15 to 29. 5/93 NCJ 140614
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