| Violent Crime Victimization |
| Q: |
Are juvenile violent offenders more likely to victimize strangers or people they know? |
| A: |
Juvenile violent victimizations of family members and acquaintances far outnumbered their victimizations of strangers. However, in robberies with juvenile offenders a majority of victims were strangers. |
Distribution of violent crime victims by offender category, victim category, and victim relationship to offender
Offender Category
and Offense |
Victim Category and Relationship to Offender |
Juvenile |
|
Adult |
All |
| Family |
Acquaintance |
Stranger |
|
Family |
Acquaintance |
Stranger |
|
|
| Juvenile |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Total |
8 |
% |
48 |
% |
5 |
% |
|
15 |
% |
17 |
% |
7 |
% |
100 |
% |
| Sexual assualt |
27 |
|
66 |
|
3 |
|
|
1 |
|
3 |
|
1 |
|
100 |
|
| Robbery |
0 |
|
22 |
|
21 |
|
|
1 |
|
13 |
|
43 |
|
100 |
|
| Aggravated assault |
6 |
|
42 |
|
6 |
|
|
13 |
|
23 |
|
10 |
|
100 |
|
| Simple assault |
7 |
|
49 |
|
4 |
|
|
18 |
|
18 |
|
4 |
|
100 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Adult |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Total |
6 |
|
7 |
|
1 |
|
|
29 |
|
45 |
|
11 |
|
100 |
|
| Sexual assualt |
25 |
|
36 |
|
3 |
|
|
5 |
|
24 |
|
6 |
|
100 |
|
| Robbery |
0 |
|
3 |
|
5 |
|
|
1 |
|
23 |
|
68 |
|
100 |
|
| Aggravated assault |
4 |
|
6 |
|
2 |
|
|
23 |
|
51 |
|
14 |
|
100 |
|
| Simple assault |
5 |
|
6 |
|
1 |
|
|
34 |
|
46 |
|
7 |
|
100 |
|
|
| Note: Detail may not total 100% because of rounding. |
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[ Excel file ]
- About 1 in 8 violent crime victims of juvenile offenders (5% + 7%) and adult offenders (1% + 11%) was a stranger.
- Almost half (48%) of the victims of juvenile crime were juveniles who were acquaintances of the offender.
- Adult victims of juvenile sex offenders were much less likely to be strangers than were adult victims of adult sex offenders (1% vs 6%).
- More than 1 in 4 victims of a juvenile or adult sex offender was a family member (27% + 1% for juvenile offenders, 25% + 5% for adults).
- Two-thirds (68%) of the victims of adult robbers were adult strangers, compared with less than half (43%) of the adult victims of juvenile robbers.
Internet citation: OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book. Online. Available: http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/victims/qa02610.asp?qaDate=20050531.
Released on May 31, 2005. Adapted from McCurley, C., and Snyder, H. (2004). Victims of Violent Juvenile Crime. Washington, DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Federal Bureau of Investigation. (2000). National Incident-Based Reporting System Master Files for the years 1997 and 1998 [machine-readable data files]. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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