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PHY5: Youth victims of serious violent crimes: Rate and number of victimizations for youth ages 12–17 by age, race,a and gender, 1980–2005

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Characteristic 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002b 2003b 2004 2005
Rate per 1,000 youth ages 12–17
Age
Ages 12–17 37.6 41.1 35.4 34.7 34.1 34.3 34.4 36.8 37.9 38.4 43.2 40.7 38.8 43.8 41.3 28.3 30.3 27.1 24.6 20.4 16.4 14.7 11.2 17.7 11.1 13.8
Ages 12–14 33.4 37.1 31.5 28.5 28.6 28.1 32.7 34.2 33.5 38.6 41.2 37.8 37.6 38.0 34.5 26.7 24.9 23.5 20.4 20.4 13.7 10.8 8.0 13.6 10.9 10.4
Ages 15–17 41.4 44.6 39.1 40.9 39.6 40.3 36.0 39.2 41.8 38.3 45.2 43.6 40.1 49.9 48.5 30.0 35.8 30.7 28.6 20.5 19.0 18.7 14.4 22.1 11.4 17.3
Race
Whitec 34.1 36.8 31.1 29.8 32.4 34.4 33.3 30.4 32.3 34.9 37.0 40.1 35.2 40.0 38.0 25.5 27.7 27.6 24.2 18.7 15.4 13.7 10.4 16.5 9.0 11.1
White, non-Hispanic — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Blackc 60.2 69.0 61.5 67.9 47.1 35.2 39.9 72.7 67.5 60.6 77.0 48.0 54.3 71.5 63.0 44.5 43.4 30.4 31.0 32.0 23.6 21.4 16.6 21.5 23.2 27.7
Black, non-Hispanic — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Hispanicd — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Other 21.7 18.3 26.6 5.5 18.8 28.8 37.1 32.0 36.5 25.6 37.3 25.0 48.7 17.6 27.5 23.7 31.2 9.7 11.7 13.2 7.7 8.8 3.4 22.6 6.5 12.2
Gender
Male 54.8 58.7 45.8 50.1 44.7 49.8 47.0 50.5 51.4 53.4 60.5 60.7 49.8 53.9 51.5 39.0 40.4 33.1 32.2 26.8 22.9 17.6 13.0 24.7 15.0 18.6
Female 19.7 22.6 24.6 18.6 23.1 18.2 21.3 22.5 23.7 22.6 24.9 19.6 27.2 33.1 30.6 17.0 19.7 20.7 16.5 13.7 9.6 11.7 9.2 10.4 7.0 8.8
Number of victimizations of youth ages 12–17
Age
Ages 12–17 877,104 934,425 792,211 769,933 749,014 742,815 733,151 772,466 777,035 772,766 866,272 825,895 809,118 933,762 905,544 633,301 687,638 622,242 569,935 477,682 394,107 358,296 276,686 446,445 281,737 350,649
Ages 12–14 364,437 400,698 343,019 316,230 313,468 295,972 325,761 333,804 325,560 380,939 412,125 389,313 400,167 415,931 387,806 303,287 281,992 266,461 233,500 237,031 166,212 131,568 101,811 176,959 140,190 132,391
Ages 15–17 512,667 533,727 449,192 453,703 435,526 446,843 407,390 438,662 451,475 391,827 454,147 436,582 408,951 517,832 517,738 330,014 405,646 355,781 336,435 240,651 227,895 226,728 174,875 269,486 141,547 218,258
Race
Whitec 658,539 691,143 572,008 543,089 581,941 606,739 575,408 514,723 533,132 562,272 593,596 851,314 585,278 678,656 660,985 451,830 498,628 502,846 444,663 344,896 293,860 263,318 203,767 322,553 176,303 215,872
White, non-Hispanic — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Blackc 206,227 232,184 203,043 223,129 153,457 113,960 127,721 230,861 212,195 187,582 238,141 150,811 175,459 236,701 214,334 154,013 152,095 107,541 110,314 115,612 91,751 85,369 69,235 85,850 93,742 111,907
Black, non-Hispanic — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Hispanicd — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Other 12,292 11,090 17,160 3,715 13,614 22,111 30,021 26,886 31,702 22,903 34,523 23,763 48,373 18,398 30,159 27,445 36,902 11,845 14,953 17,165 8,483 9,598 3,674 38,041 11,693 22,870
Gender
Male 651,976 682,619 523,510 568,476 501,791 550,860 512,132 542,835 540,292 551,148 623,509 632,472 532,684 569,764 579,273 447,695 471,282 390,870 383,546 322,259 281,709 218,825 165,369 318,137 194,850 241,083
Female 225,127 251,805 268,701 201,457 247,223 191,955 221,020 229,630 235,742 221,618 242,763 193,423 276,434 343,998 326,211 185,606 216,356 231,372 186,389 155,422 112,398 139,469 111,317 128,307 86,888 109,566
— Not available.
a From 1980 to 2002, the 1977 OMB Standards for Data on Race and Ethnicity were used to classify persons into one of the following racial groups: White, Black, or Other. "Other" included American Indian or Alaskan Native, and Asian or Pacific Islander. Data from 2003 onward are collected under the 1997 OMB Standards. Persons could select one or more of five racial groups: White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. Included in the total, but not shown separately are American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. Data from 2002 onward are not directly comparable with data from earlier years. Data on race and Hispanic origin are collected separately. Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race.
b Revised. Original estimate was based on preliminary data.
c Homicide data is collected using the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) for which Hispanic origin is not available. Homicide is included here, but the victim may have been Hispanic.
d Beginning in 2003, estimates for Hispanic do not include homicides. Homicide victim data does not comply with the 1997 OMB standards, so it cannot be disaggregated to this level.
NOTE: Serious violent crimes include aggravated assault, rape, robbery, and homicide. Aggravated assault is an attack with a weapon, regardless of whether or not an injury occurred, or an attack without a weapon when serious injury resulted. Robbery is stealing by force or threat of force. Because of changes made in the victimization survey, data prior to 1992 were adjusted to make them comparable with data collected under the redesigned methodology. Victimization rates were calculated using population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Reports. Such population estimates normally differ somewhat from population estimates derived from the victimization survey data. The rates may therefore differ marginally from rates based upon the victimization survey-derived population estimates. Rates may also be revised to reflect final U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for 1990–2004. The 2005 data were collected during the calendar year and include some incidents that occurred during the previous year. Data for previous years are of victimizations experienced in the calendar year. This was done because the full data for 2005 were not yet available. Analyses comparing these data show only a small difference between the two methods.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Supplementary Homicide Reports.