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    Sexual Assault Statistics

States:
# Cumulative victims of forcbible rape
% Under age 15
% Under age 16
% Under age 17
% Under age 18
% 18 or older
Alabama 1,404 24% 30% 35% 38% 62%
Arkansas 986 - - - 44% 56%
Delaware 783 50% 61% 66% 71% 29%
Dist. Columbia 205 - 22% 28% 32% 68%
Florida 7,280 - - - 46% 54%
Idaho 221 20% 24% 29% 35% 65%
Kansas 1,013 12% - - - -
Michigan 4,731 49% 58% 64% 68% 32%
Nebraska 290 - 31% - 42% 58%
No. Carolina 2,397 - 20% - - -
No. Dakota 124 48% 50% 52% 57% 43%
Pennsylvania 2,996 25% 32% 37% 42% 58%
Rhode Island 490 - - - 70% 30%
So. Carolina 2,193 - - 40% - -
Wisconsin 1,314 22% 29% 37% 42% 58%

Note: Blanks indicate detail was not reported. *Excludes victims with unknown age.
Source: BJS State survey of rapes reported to law enforcement agencies in 1992.

Victim-offender relationship:

Age of Victim Total Family Member Aquaintance or friend -a Stranger
Under 12 100% 46% 50% 4%
12-17 100% 20% 65% 15%
18 or older 100% 12% 55% 33%

Source: Victims in 3 States

Age of Victim Total Family Member Aquaintance or friend -a Stranger
Under 12 -b 100% 70% 24% 6%
12-17 100% 36% 45% 19%
18 or older 100% 8% 45% 47%

Source: Imprisoned rapists

a. Includes other nonfamily relationships.
b. May include some 12-year-olds.

Sources: Tabulated from data described in Using NIBRS Data to Analyze Violent Crime, BJS technical report, NCJ- 144785, October 1993; BJS, Survey of State Prison Inmates, 1991, NCJ-136949, March 1993.


 
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