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Violent Crime
This report summarizes 1973-92 trends in rape, robbery, and assault from the BJS National Crime
Victimization Survey; homicide data from Vital Statistics of the United States, National
Center for Health Statistics; and 1992 murder data from the FBI Uniform Crime Reports. It
points out the increasing victimization rates for ages 12 to 24 and summarizes patterns of
weapon use, injury, hospitalization, self-protection by victims, economic costs, offender
characteristics, reporting to police, and differing rates of victimization by sex and race. 4/94 NCJ
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