Violent Crime Statistics

According to The Bureau of Justice Statistics, violent crime includes murder, rape and sexual assault, robbery, and assault.

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Classifications:

Aggravated assault - Attack or attempted attack with a weapon, regardless of whether or not an injury occurred and attack without a weapon when serious injury resulted.

Simple assault - Attack without a weapon resulting either in no injury, minor injury (for example, bruises, black eyes, cuts, scratches or swelling) or in undetermined injury requiring less than 2 days of hospitalization. Also includes attempted assault without a weapon.

In 1999, The Associated Press newswire story told us about violent crime committed by males and females. During that timeframe women commited about 2.1 million violent crimes each year. By comparison, men commited about 13 million violent crimes each year. The figures were based on averages for the years 1993-1997 as measured in the annual National Crime Victimization Survey of about 100,000.

"This report shows that women are where men were during the 1960s and 1970s, using their fists when they commit violent assaults," says Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University in Boston.

The newswire concluded with: Women comprise almost 52 percent of the population, so the totals mean that there is one violent male offender for every nine males age 10 or older, compared with one violent female offender for every 56 women age 10 or older.

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Menstuff® has gathered alternatives to violence programs for men perpetrators and victims and for women perpetrators - believed to be the largest listing in the U.S. Use caution in visiting many of the Domestic Violence resources. Some national, regional and local resources that use names like Family Violence Services, or Coalition Against Domestic Violence or Coalition to End Domestic Violence or Commission on Family Violence are misleading titles since some don't provide services for male victims and their children and women perpetrators.

Whether politically motivated or behind in understanding domestic violence or desiring to keep the statistics skewed to falsely show that women are the only victims of domestic violence, these often publicly funded organizations do not serve the broader community by their politically motivated view of domestic violence.

According to the U. S. Department of Justice and the Centers for Disease Prevention & Control, 1998: over one-third of all domestic perpetrators who enter the justice system are women. (835M women and 1,500M men). It is our on-going commitment to list services that include prevention programs (37 of which also include support for female perpetrators), and victim assistance programs for women and men as well as the issues of Domestic Violence, including the Rights of Battered Men and Violence - General and TV Violence and media and governmental Contacts.


List of services by state: http://tinyurl.com/m662h