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Two different government data streams give different lenses: victim‑based surveys (NCVS) found that in 2018 about 52% of violent‑crime perpetrators were identified as White and about 29% as Black, whi...
The two federal products most likely to publish sexual‑assault statistics by race or ethnicity through 2024–2025 are the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system (now surfaced through the Crime Data...
Research does not support a simple claim that "homosexuals" commit sex crimes at higher rates; large recent studies show LGBT people are much more often victims of violent and sexual crimes than non‑L...
Available reporting shows hundreds of thousands of people are identified as victims of rape or sexual assault in recent U.S. years — for example, a Statista chart (sourcing the Bureau of Justice Stati...
Multiple recent studies from 2024–2025 converge on a clear finding: across several measures and time frames. These conclusions are supported by analyses using different datasets — the American Communi...
Available sources indicate that crime statistics and victimization surveys show a small portion of the population accounts for most recorded violent offending, but exact shares and causes are debated ...
The FBI’s 2023 and 2024 national UCR releases show overall estimated violent crime fell year-to-year: an estimated 3.0% decline in 2023 versus 2022 and further estimated decreases into 2024 (including...
An exact annual count of rapes that go unreported in the United States cannot be pin-pointed with precision, but multiple authoritative sources converge on the conclusion that , with common estimates ...
Official statistics and academic studies show measurable differences in crime rates and criminal justice outcomes across racial and ethnic groups in the United States, with Black Americans often showi...
The FBI collects racial data through its Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, primarily via the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and legacy Summary Reporting System, and publishes th...
The FBI’s official public portal for arrest and crime data is the Crime Data Explorer (CDE) and the UCR/NIBRS collections; these are the primary places to get “official” counts and breakdowns of arres...
Official claims about how many women “report being raped” in the United States are inconsistent across studies and reporting systems: , and those that do emphasize underreporting and low prosecution r...
International data show widely varying crime levels across countries and regions, and some academic work dating to 1989–1990 found systematic differences in homicide and serious-violent crime rates be...
Official U.S. crime statistics by race are published primarily by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program (including the Crime Data Explorer and Table 43) and by the Department of Justice’s Bu...
The NCVS’s methodological boundaries — most notably its 12-and-older respondent age cutoff, its sampling design that produces meaningful margins of error at subnational scales, and its survey-timing c...
National surveys routinely collect demographic data (age, sex, race/Hispanic origin, marital status, education, income) alongside topic-specific questions; for example, the National Crime Victimizatio...
Recent reporting and government data show a persistent urban–rural split in violence: overall violent‑victimization rates remain higher in urban areas (e.g., 24.5 per 1,000 in urban vs. 11.1 in rural ...
The core claim is that the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) undercounts defensive gun uses (DGUs); multiple analyses conclude this is plausible because , while other surveys and estimates pr...
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) consistently estimates , a figure that has remained stable across multi‑decade analyses and is far lower than many private‑survey estimates that claim hu...
The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Criminal Victimization, 2023 release reports overall nonfatal violent victimization rates for 2023 and some demographic breakdowns but . Historical BJS analyses show ...