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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.
To view data,
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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 2005.
- 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 134,000 persons age 12 and older in 77,200 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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