Criminal Victimization, 2003

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Criminal Victimization, 2003
Presents estimates of national levels and rates of personal and property victimization for the year 2003. Rates and levels are provided for personal and property victimization by victim characteristics, type of crime, victim-offender relationship, use of weapons, and reporting to police. A special section of this annual report is devoted to trends in victimization rates from 1993 to 2003. Estimates are from data collected using the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), an ongoing survey of households that interviews about 75,000 persons in 42,000 households twice annually. Violent crimes included in the report are rape/sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault and simple assault (from the NCVS), and homicide (from the FBI's UCR program). Property crimes examined are burglary, motor vehicle theft, and property theft.

Highlights include the following:

During 2003, 24% of all violent crime incidents were committed by an armed offender; 7% by an offender with a firearm.
Persons who have been historically the most vulnerable to violent crime - male, blacks, and youths - continued to be victimized at higher rates than others in 2003.
Rates of robbery and assault did not change from 2002 to 2003, while the rate for rape/sexual assault declined marginally.


http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cv03.htm

Spreadsheet of data: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/sheets/cv03.zip

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1. Tables in spreadsheet

cv03t01.csv Table 1. Criminal victimization, numbers and rates, 2002 and 2003
cv03t02.csv Table 2. Criminal victimization, average annual rates, 2000-2001 and 2002-03
cv03t03.csv Table 3. Rates of criminal victimization and percent change, 1993-2003
cv03t04.csv Table 4. Violent victimization rates of selected demographic categories, 1993-2003
cv03t05.csv Table 5. Property crime rates of selected household demographics, 1993-2003
cv03t06.csv Table 6. Rates of violent crime and personal theft, by gender, race, Hispanic origin, and age, 2003
cv03t07.csv Table 7. Rates of violent crime and personal theft, by household income, marital status, region, and location of residence of victims, 2003
cv03t08.csv Table 8. Property crime victimization, by household income, region, residence, and home ownership of households victimized, 2003
cv03t09.csv Table 9. Victim and offender relationship, 2003
cv03t10.csv Table 10. Presence of weapons in violent crimes, 2003
cv03t0203.csv Criminal Victimization, 2002-2003
Texttables
cv03tt1.csv Text Table 1. Violent crime average rate by gender, 2000-2001 to 2002-03
cv03tt2.csv Text Table 2. Violent crime average rate by marital status, 2000-2001 to 2002-03
cv03tt3.csv Text Table 3. Violent crime average rate by age, 2000-2001 to 2002-03
cv03tt4.csv Text Table 4. Violent crime average rate by annual household income, 2000-2001 to 2002-03
cv03tt5.csv Text Table 5. Violent crime average rate by region, and residence, 2000-2001 to 2002-03
cv03tt6.csv Text Table 6. Property crime average rate by annual household income, 2000-2001 to 2002-03
cv03tt7.csv Text Table 7. Property crime average rate by region, residence and ownership, 2000-2001 to 2002-03
cv03tt8.csv Text Table 8. Nonfatal firearm incidents and victims, 1993 and 2003
cv03tt9.csv Text Table 9. Violent and property crimes reported to the police, 2003
cv03tt10.csv Text Table 10. Reporting to police by victim characteristics, 2003
cv03tt11.csv Text Table 11. Impact of 2000 Census population controls

Figures
cv03f1.csv Figure 1. Violent crime
cv03f2.csv Figure 2. Property crime
cv03f3.csv Figure 3. Violent crime and gender
cv03f4.csv Figure 4. Property crime and owned/rented residences
cv03f5.csv Figure 5. Property crime and urbanicity
cv03f6.csv Figure 6. Property crime and region
cv03f7.csv Figure 7. Percent of violent crime reported to the police
cv03f8.csv Figure 8. Percent of robbery and rape.sexual assault reported to the police
cv03f9.csv Figure 9. Percent of aggravated and simple assault reported to the police
cv03f10.csv Figure 10. Percent of property crime reported to the police
cv03f11.csv Figure 11. Percent of burglary reported to the police
cv03f12.csv Figure 12. Percent of household theft reported to the police