| BJS home
page
Publications
What's new
Relevant topics
NIBRS
Victim Characteristics
Characteristics of Crime
Criminal Offenders Statistics |
Sexual Assault of Young
Children as Reported to Law Enforcement: Victim, Incident, and Offender
Characteristics
Presents findings
from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) regarding sexual
assault, especially of young children. The data are based on reports from
law enforcement agencies of 12 States and covers the years 1991 through
1996. The report presents sexual assault in 4 categories: forcible rape,
forcible sodomy, sexual assault with an object, and forcible fondling.
Findings include statistics on the incidence of sexual assault, the
victims, their offenders, gender, response to these crimes, locality, time
of incident, the levels of victim injury, victims' perceptions of
offenders' ages, and victim-offender relationships, and other detailed
characteristics. Highlights include the following:
- Sixty-seven
percent of all victims of sexual assault reported to law enforcement
agencies were juveniles (under the age of 18); 34% of all victims were
under age 12.
- One of every seven
victims of sexual assault reported to law enforcement agencies were
under age 6.
- Forty percent of
the offenders who victimized children under age 6 were juveniles (under
the age of 18)
7/00 NCJ
182990
Acrobat
file (129K) | ASCII
file (41K)
Spreadsheets
(zip format) (30K)
About the source
data | Codebooks
& data sets
To
order paper version
Help for using BJS
products |
