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  • Criminal Victimization in the United States, 1995

    Presents detailed data on major variables measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) for 1995 that covers --
  • crimes of violence (rape, sexual assault, robbery, assault) and theft (pocket picking, purse snatching, burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft), with data on victim characteristics (sex, age, race, ethnicity, marital status, education, income, and residence);
  • crime characteristics (time and place of occurrence, distance from home, weapon use, self-protection, injury, medical care, economic loss, and time lost from work);
  • victim-offender relationship; victims' perceptions of substance use by offenders and of offender characteristics (age, race, and sex);
  • whether crimes were reported to the police and reasons why; and police response time for reported crimes.

    This report is one in a series. A list of all in the printed series is provided on the publications page.

    After 1995, these data are available only in electronic formats. See Criminal Victimization in United States - Statistical Tables.

    Full report: Acrobat file (744K) | ASCII file (111K)
    Spreadsheets (zip format) (301K) | About the source data

    Chapter 1: Introduction
    Acrobat file (75K)
    Chapter 2: Demography of victims
    Acrobat file (188K) | Spreadsheets (zip format) (63K)
    Chapter 3: Victims and offenders
    Acrobat file (175K) | Spreadsheets (zip format) (57K)
    Chapter 4: Geography
    Acrobat file (135K) | Spreadsheets (zip format) (33K)
    Chapter 5: The crime event
    Acrobat file (210K) | Spreadsheets (zip format) (77K)
    Chapter 6: Victims and the criminal justice system
    Acrobat file (169K) | Spreadsheets (zip format) (49K)
    Appendixes Acrobat file (77K) | ASCII file (59K)

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