What is the asian on asian murder rate in the usa

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Executive summary

The best available national figures show that Asian and Pacific Islander persons experience an age‑adjusted homicide victimization rate of about 1.7 per 100,000—substantially lower than rates for most other racial groups—but the specific “Asian‑on‑Asian” (victim race = Asian and offender race = Asian) murder rate is not directly reported in the cited summaries and cannot be stated with precision from the provided material [1] [2]. Federal data sets that break down victim‑offender race cross‑tabulations exist (for example, the FBI’s Expanded Homicide Data and the BJS Homicide Victimization reports) and would be required to compute an exact Asian‑on‑Asian rate [3] [2].

1. What the headline Asian homicide rate looks like

National analyses and public‑health summaries place Asian and Pacific Islander homicide victimization well below the U.S. average and far below rates for Black and American Indian populations: the most recent race‑specific, age‑adjusted homicide rate cited here is 1.7 per 100,000 for Asian and Pacific Islander persons, compared with 33.6 per 100,000 for African American persons and 3.3 per 100,000 for White persons—figures compiled in a peer‑reviewed review of racial disparities in violent deaths [1]. Other research and government summaries consistently characterize Asian Americans as having comparatively low levels of homicide and violent offending relative to other racial and ethnic groups [4] [5].

2. Why “Asian‑on‑Asian” is a different question from “Asian homicide rate”

An overall race‑specific homicide rate (victims per 100,000) tells how often members of a group are killed, but not who the perpetrators were; determining an “Asian‑on‑Asian” rate requires cross‑tabulated victim‑by‑offender race data and population denominators to produce a per‑100,000 estimate (the FBI’s Expanded Homicide Data and the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Homicide Victimization reports are the standard sources for those cross‑tabs) [3] [2]. The materials provided include those data repositories but do not contain the explicit computed rate for Asian victims killed by Asian offenders, so an exact numeric Asian‑on‑Asian murder rate cannot be asserted from the supplied excerpts [3] [2].

3. What the broader data imply about intraracial patterns

National homicide reporting historically shows that most homicides are intraracial—victims and offenders tend to be of the same race—so the Asian victim rate being low implies Asian‑on‑Asian homicides are likely rare in absolute numbers and low per capita as well; however, the specific proportion of Asian homicides that are intraracial versus interracial is not provided in the excerpts supplied and would need to be read directly from FBI Expanded Homicide Data or the BJS HVUS tables to quantify [3] [2].

4. Caveats, data quality, and what’s missing

Surveillance systems vary: the National Incident‑Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and the FBI supplemental homicide files have improved detail but also suffer from incomplete reporting and shifting methodology; BJS warns about estimation programs and updated cutoffs that affect year‑to‑year comparability [2]. Peer‑reviewed and CDC analyses highlight different ways to present race‑specific homicide metrics (age‑adjusted rates, firearm‑specific rates, counts), and some analyses note rising firearm homicides across groups even while Asian rates remain lower—yet the provided snippets do not include the direct Asian‑victim by Asian‑offender cross‑tabulation needed to report an explicit Asian‑on‑Asian per‑100,000 rate [6] [7].

5. Bottom line and how to get a definitive number

Bottom line: the overall Asian/Pacific Islander homicide victim rate is approximately 1.7 per 100,000 [1], but the explicit Asian‑on‑Asian murder rate is not calculable from the excerpts provided because the necessary victim‑offender race cross‑tabulation and corresponding denominators are not included here; consulting the FBI Expanded Homicide Data Table 6 and the BJS Homicide Victimization in the United States report would allow a precise calculation [3] [2]. Alternative viewpoints note that immigrant status, firearm trends, and local context shape patterns of victimization, and those factors should be considered when interpreting any single aggregate rate [8] [6] [7].

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