NCJ Number
163392
Date Published
February 1997
Length
45 pages
Annotation
This report draws on more than 24 statistical datasets maintained by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Uniform Crime Reporting Program to provide a comprehensive overview of current knowledge about the incidence and prevalence of violent victimization by sexual assault, the response of the justice system to such crimes, and the characteristics of the offenders who commit these crimes.
Abstract
Draws on more than 24 statistical datasets to provide an overview of violent victimization by sexual assault and the characteristics of the offenders who commit these crimes. Among the findings in this, a high percentage of the rape and sexual assault victims are children, and in 90 percent of the cases, they knew the offender.
Date Published: February 1, 1997