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| Name of Study/Survey |
Sponsoring Agency(s) |
Survey Focus |
Selected Findings |
| FBI Uniform Crime
Report, 2001 |
FBI, USDOJ |
Forcible rapes (defined as carnal
knowledge) & attempted rapes of
females, any age reported to police
in 2001 (Excludes statutory rape
and rape of males). |
90,491 forcible/attempted
female rapes.
Rate: 62.2 rapes per 100,000
women |
| National Crime
Victimization Survey, 2000 |
Bureau of Justice
Statistics, USDOJ |
Survey-based estimates of the
number of reported & unreported
rapes/attempted rapes of men and
women over age 12. |
147,000 rapes/attempted rapes,
men and women. The figure is
down from 201,000 rapes
estimated in 1999 survey. |
National Violence
Against Women Survey,
Nov 1995 thru May 1996 |
CDC/HHS and
National Institute of
Justice, USDOJ |
Survey-based estimates of the
number of rapes or attempted rapes
(defined to include vaginal, oral,
and anal sex), physical assault, and
stalking of men and women over
age 18. Queried lifetime incidence
and in 12 months prior to study. |
302,000 completed or attempted
rapes of women in prior 12
months. Because some women
were victims of multiple rapes,
estimates indicate that a total of
876,000 rapes occurred during
the year. The study also
estimates that 93,000 men were
raped, and a total of 111,000
rapes occurred during the year. |
National Women's
Study,
1989 thru 1993 |
National Institute of
Drug Abuse, NIH,
HHS |
Physical & sexual assault of
women, w/ info on other traumatic
events (e.g., Post-traumatic stress
disorder, alcohol and drug abuse). |
683,000 women raped over 12
month period. Eighty-four
percent of rapes not reported. |
| National Child Abuse
and Neglect Data
System, 2000 |
Children's Bureau,
Administration on Children and
Families (ACF), HHS |
All types of abuse and neglect
children under age 18. |
879,000 cases of abuse &
neglect substantiated. Ten
percent (87,900 cases) were
related to child sexual abuse. |
| Third National
Incidence Study of Child
Abuse and Neglect
(NIS-3), 1993 |
National Center on
Child Abuse and
Neglect, HHS |
Reported and unreported cases of
child abuse and neglect. |
1.6 million children abused &
neglected, including 300,000
victims of sexual abuse. |
| National Elder Abuse Incidence Study, 1996 |
Administration on Children and Families; Administration on
Aging, HHS |
Abuse and neglect (financial, emotional, sexual, and physical
abuse or neglect, excluding self-neglect)
of non-institutionalized
persons over age 60, as reported to
adult protective services agencies
and "sentinel" community agencies. |
Estimated 450,000 cases of elder abuse occurred in 1996.
This includes 71,000 cases
reported and substantiated by
Adult Protected Services (APS)
agencies, and 379,000 cases that
occurred, but were not reported.
The number of reported cases is
150 percent higher than in 1986.
Females and persons over age
80 at highest risk. |
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