If you are thinking about purchasing a home in a neighborhood, or just plain nosey about the petty thefts, sexual assualts and shoplifting arrests in your neighborhood, check out this website:
- About seven in ten female rape or sexual assault victims stated the offender was an intimate, other relative, a friend or an acquaintance.
- Seventy-four percent of males and 48% of females stated the individual(s) who robbed them was a stranger.
Intimates were identified by the victims of workplace violence as the perpetrator in about 1% of all workplace violent crime. About 40% of the victims of nonfatal violence in the workplace reported that they knew their offender.
For murder victims, 43% were related to or acquainted with their assailants; 14% of victims were murdered by strangers, while 43% of victims had an unknown relationship to their murderer in 2002.
Two thirds of murders of children under the age of 5 were committed by a parent or other family member.
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