NCJ Number
162125
Date Published
1996
Length
33 pages
Annotation
This report presents data on sexual assaults reported to law enforcement agencies in Wisconsin during 1995.
Abstract
The report focuses on five sexual assault offense types defined by both the national and Wisconsin Incident-Based Reporting Systems, a newer, incident-level version of the Uniform Crime Reporting system. These offense types are forcible rape, forcible sodomy, assault with an object, forcible fondling, and statutory rape. In addition to data on the number of the various types of sexual assault, information is also provided on the race and sex of the offenders and victims, the relationship of assailant to victim, the location of sexual assaults, the number of sexual assaults by month, and the number of offenders. These data are broken down by "most serious" sexual assaults and "less serious" sexual assaults. Trends in reported sexual assaults are shown for 1986-95. One table indicates the number of sexual assaults by county and municipality for 1995. In 1995 an estimated 6,101 sexual assaults were reported to law enforcement agencies, a 7-percent decrease from the 1994 estimated total of 6,564. The most common type of sexual assault was forcible fondling, which accounted for 51 percent of all reported cases. Of all sexual assaults, 32 percent were the most serious types of offenses (forcible rape, forcible sodomy, or assault with an object). Ninety-two percent of all sexual assaults were perpetrated by someone known to the victim, and 8 percent were committed by strangers. An offender was arrested in 57 percent of all cases. 10 tables, 7 graphs, and appended data collection and interpretation, Wisconsin sexual assault statutes, and a sexual assault data collection form