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"Stranger" is a classification of the victim's relationship to the offender for crimes involving direct contact between the two. Incidents are classified as involving strangers if the victim identifies the offender as a stranger, did not see or recognize the offender, or knew the offender only by sight. Crimes involving multiple offenders are classified as involving nonstrangers if any of the offenders was a nonstranger. Since victims of theft without contact rarely see the offender, no distinction is made between strangers and nonstrangers for the crime.
"Non-stranger" is a classification of a crime victim's relationship to the offender. An offender who is either related to, well known to, or casually acquainted with the victim is a nonstranger. For crimes with more than one offender, if any of the offenders are nonstrangers, then the group of offenders as a whole is classified as nonstranger. This category only applies to crimes which involve contact between the victim and the offender; the distinction is not made for crimes of theft since victims of this offense rarely see the offenders.
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Violent Victimization Committed by Strangers, 1993-2010
Presents findings on the rates and levels of violent victimization committed by offenders who were strangers to the victims, including homicide, rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault. |
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Victimization During Household Burglary
Presents findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) on the characteristics of burglary, with comparisons between households where members were present and not present. |
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Press Release | Acrobat file (PDF 352K) | ASCII file (31K) | Spreadsheet (Zip format 25K)
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Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2001
Reports on trends in intimate partner violence of persons age 12 or older in the United States using data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports. |
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PDF (234K) | ASCII file (5K) | Spreadsheet (5K) | Codebooks and Datasets | To order paper version
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Intimate Partner Violence
Provides information on violence by intimates (current or former spouses, girlfriends, or boyfriends) since the redesign of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). |
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Press Release | PDF (103K) | ASCII file (26K) | Spreadsheet (Zip format 32K) | Codebooks and Datasets | To obtain paper version
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Nonstranger |
A classification of a crime victim's relationship to the offender. An offender who is
either related to, well known to, or casually acquainted with the victim is a
nonstranger. For crimes with more than one offender, if any of the offenders are
nonstrangers, then the group of offenders as a whole is classified as nonstranger.
This
category only applies to crimes which involve contact between the victim and the
offender; the distinction is not made for crimes of theft since victims of this
offense
rarely see the offenders. |
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Stranger |
A classification of the victim's relationship to the offender for crimes involving
direct contact between the two. Incidents are classified as involving strangers if the
victim identifies the offender as a stranger, did not see or recognize the offender,
or knew the offender only by sight. Crimes involving multiple offenders are classified
as involving nonstrangers if any of the offenders was a nonstranger. Since victims of
theft without contact rarely see the offender, no distinction is made between
strangers and nonstrangers for the crime. |
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