CRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION IN THE U.S. - 1973 ADVANCE REPORT, V 1, MAY 1975 - A NATIONAL CRIME PANEL SURVEY REPORT

• NCJ Number: 19318
• Author(s): ANON
• Date Published: 1975
• Length: 47 pages
• Sponsoring Agency: US Dept of Justice
• Corporate Author: National Criminal Justice Information & Statistics Service
• Sale Source: Superintendent of Documents, GPO; National Institute of Justice/
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

DATA FOR 1973 ON RATES OF VICTIMIZATION FOR PERSONS, HOUSEHOLDS, AND BUSINESSES.

Abstract

DATA WAS OBTAINED FROM THE NATIONAL CRIME PANEL'S CONTINUING SURVEY WHICH FOCUSES ON THE FOLLOWING CRIMES FOR INDIVIDUALS - RAPE, ROBBERY, ASSAULT, AND PERSONAL LARCENY; FOR HOUSEHOLDS - BURGLARY, LARCENY, AND MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT; AND FOR COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS BURGLARY AND ROBBERY. INFORMATION IN THIS REPORT WAS OBTAINED FROM INTERVIEWS WITH A SAMPLE OF APPROXIMATELY 60,000 HOUSEHOLDS AND 15,000 BUSINESSES REPRESENTATIVE OF ALL HOUSEHOLDS, AND BUSINESSES IN THE 50 STATES AND THE FIFTY STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. GENERAL FINDINGS FROM THE DATA WERE THAT DURING THE YEAR 1973, SELECTED CRIMES OF VIOLENCE AND COMMON THEFT ACCOUNTED FOR APPROXIMATELY 37 MILLION VICTIMIZATIONS - 55 PERCENT INVOLVING INDIVIDUALS, 41 PERCENT HOUSEHOLDS, AND 4 PERCENT BUSINESSES. THE SINGLE, MOST PREVALENT TYPE OF CRIME WAS PERSONAL LARCENY, ACCOUNTING FOR ABOUT 40 PERCENT OF ALL VICTIMIZATIONS RECORDED. HOUSEHOLD LARCENY WAS THE MOST COMMON OF THE HOUSEHOLD VICTIMIZATIONS (20 PERCENT OF ALL CRIMES) AND BURGLARY WAS THE MOST FREQUENT TYPE OF COMMERCIAL VICTIMIZATION. TWELVE STATISTICAL DATA TABLES ARE APPENDED TO THIS REPORT ALONG WITH A DISCUSSION OF THE CONSTRAINTS ON INTERPRETATION AND OTHER USES OF THE DATA AND GUIDELINES FOR DETERMINING THEIR RELIABILITY. (SNI ABSTRACT)