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Serious violent crime
rates declined in recent years for both blacks and whites.
Blacks
experience the highest rates of serious violent crime.
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- Note: Serious violent
crimes included are homicide, rape, robbery, 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. Due to changes in the methods
used, these data differ from earlier versions.
OMB mandated changes in the collection and reporting of race and ethnicity were implemented in 2003. See Criminal Victimization 2003 for more information on the impact on survey estimates.
- 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.
For related data about homicide
trends by race, see Homicide Trends
in the U.S. |
