Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1983 - Bureau of Justice ...

-------'''*'''_''' __ ,~=IW".(ISourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 19113Nature and Distribution of Known OffensesTable 3.38 Respondents reporting crime vic'llmizatlon and crime reporting during the lastde/ll()graphlc characteristics, Ullted States, 1!l8212 months, by type of victimization andTable 3.39 Reports of child abuse or neglect, by type ofreport, 25 jurisdictions, 1981(\N)TE: The "victimized" are the percent of total respondents who reported they had been the victimof a particular offense. Those who "reported" are a subset of the victims but a percent of thetotal respondents. For a discussion of public opinion survey sampling procedures, see Appendix 7.Question: "During the last 12 months have any of these happened to you?""Did you happen to report this to the police or nat?"(Percent)i-bne, car,Personally,Vioney orMoney oror propertymugged orI-ilrne broken intopropertv stolenproperty taken byvandalizedphysicallyor atteapt rngdeTotalCor stolenVicthreator forceRe- VicgssgultedRe- VicvictimizedRe- VictimizedRe- Vlce£rtedtlmlzedRe- Vice£rtedtimizedRe- at ae£rted t1mized e£rted timized ~rted timized ~rted least onceNotional 12 7 II 7 8 6 2 2 2 (b) 25Sex:Male 12 7 II 6 5 4Female2 I122 (b)8 II(b)72510 ~i 3 2 2 I (b) 25Race:White 12 7 12 7 8 6 3 2 I I 25Nonwhite II 6 !I 6 7 6 2 I 2 (b) 24"'ducation:College 13 8 15 9 9 8 3 2 I (b) (b) (b) 29High school 14 8 II 7 8 6 3 2 2 I I I 26Grade school 4 I 3 I 5 2 2 (b) 2 I (b) I 13Region:East 8 4 10 7 6 4 3 2 3 I I (b) 22Midwest II 7 9 5 7 5 3 2 I I (b) (b) 23South 13 7 9 5 8 6 I I (b) (b) I I 24West 18 12 19 12 II 9 3 2 2 2 I I 35Age:Total under 30 years 16 9 16 II 9 6 3 I 3 I I I 31III to 24 years 19 II 19 13 9 5 4 2 4 I I I 3825 to 29 years 10 6 12 8 9 8 I I (b) (b) (b) 2230 to 49 years 14 8 II 6 10 8 4 2 2 I I I 29Total 50 years and older 8 5 8 4 5 4 ! I I (b) (b) (b) 175U to 64 years 8 5 8 5 5 4 I I I (b) (b) (b) III65 years and older 8 5 6 3 5 4 I I I I (b) (b) 15rooo ood~,13 9 13 9 8 7 I I I I (b) (b) 2720,000 to r4,999 10 4 7 4 5 4 4 3 I I (b) (b) 2015,OUO to 19,999 II 4 15 8 9 5 2 I 2 (b) 3 2 2610,000 to 14,999 13 4 7 5 7 6 2 I I I (b) (b) 225,000 to $9,999 :6 10 13 8 10 8 2 I 3 2 I I 21lLklder $5,000 7 4 4 I 6 3 2 I 2 (b) (b) (b) !7Income:Politics:Republican 12 7 8 5 7 5 2 I 2 I 24Democrat II 7 9 5 8 6 3 2 I (b) 24Independent 13 7 17 10 8 7 3 I 2 I 27Religion:Protestant 10 6 10 6 7 5Catholic2 I I (b)12 6(b)12(b)8 8226 2 2 2 I (b) (b) 25Occupation:Professional and blliliness 13 9 12 10 7 7Clerical and sales2 215I9 21I I12 16I 26IIManual workersI124 (b)7 II2 (b)6 Il346Nonlabor force21026I (b)9 4I4274 I I I I I 19City size:1,000,000 and over 13 9 II 8 9 7 2 2 2 I (b) (b) 2135UO,OOO to 999,999 17 10 18 14 9 8 5 5 I (b) (b) (b) 3250,000 to 499,999 13 7 10 5 13 10 4 2 3 I I I 272,500 to 49,999 7 3 12 8 4 3 (b) (b) (b) (b) I I 21Under 2,500, rural 12 7 9 5 4 3 I I (b) (b) !b) ~b) 20aThis figure represents the net proportion of households for whichone or more crimes was raported by thl1 :espondent. In addition to thecrimes presented individually In the table, other crimes were reportedby I percent or less of respondents.bless than I percent.Socrce: George H. Gallup, The Gallup Ree£rt, Report No. 210 (Princeton, N.J.: The Gallup Poll, Morch 1983), pp. 4, 5. Reprlnterl by P"1rmisslon.354i~It!III~~II!I!r~1\~If!ij~II,I;II)),IikilI,d;,j:1H;,I!IIi\I.q[1'II)~IiII)II1N)TE: These data were collected by the Notional Study on ChildNeglect and Abuse Reporting of the American HumaneAssociation. The data were complied from the reports of the37 Jurisdictions that submitted Individual case Information.They do not represent the total number of reports receivedbecause reports were edited by the Notional Study's staff forcorrectness and completeness. Only edited reports have beentabulated.The reader Is urged to use caution In making comparisonswith data presented In previous SClRCEBOO