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Murder in Large Urban Counties, 1988This BJS Special Report represents almost 10,000 prosecuted murder defendants and more than 8,000 murder victims in the Nation's 75 most populous counties in 1988-- about half of the Nation's murder arrestees for that year and just under half of the murder victims. The study, which summarizes the circumstances of the murders, found that 80% of the murder victims knew their killers, 16% were related to their killers, and 52% had a romantic or social relationship with their murderers. About a third of the female victims and a tenth of the male victims were killed by a spouse or romantic partner. About 75% of the victims were male, just over half were black, and nearly half were ages 15 to 29. 5/93 NCJ 140614Press release | Codebooks & data sets | To order paper version |
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