DOJ Victimization Survey
The Justice Department's new victimization survey is out. Highlights include:
The violent crime rate fell 10% 2000-2001, due primarily to a significant decrease in the rate of simple assault.
The overall property crime rate fell 6% between 2000-2001 because of decreases in theft and household burglary rates.
For the first year since the redesign of the NCVS in 1992, in 2001 males and females were victims of simple assault at similar rates.
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