History of Feminism

KitSileya

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15. And in addition, if I'm reading these stats from BJS right...

Mon Dec 30, 2013, 05:29 PM

Dec 2013

in 2011, 25.4 of every 1000 men and 19.8 of ever 1000 women (over the age of 12) were victims of violent crimes. That is 2.54% of men and 1.98% of women, right? Quite a significant difference in rates of victimization.

They also give the rate for serious violent crime, which includes rape or sexual assault, robbery and aggravated assault - a narrower focus. There the victimization rates are .77% for men and .67% for women. In other words, while men are more likely to be victims of violent crimes, for serious violent crimes the difference isn't nearly as big.

The stats are taken from table 5 Rate and percent change of violent victimization, by demographic characteristics of victim
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv11.pdf

I am getting quite tired though (a long day of grading papers will do that to a teacher) so I may have misunderstood the numbers on p.5, but I don't think so.

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And in addition, if I'm reading these stats from BJS right... KitSileya Dec 2013 #15

That's interesting and thanks for posting the link too xulamaude Dec 2013 #17

Oh, I wish I had a brain freeze right now. KitSileya Dec 2013 #18

Rest well Kit :) nt xulamaude Dec 2013 #20

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