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Sexual Assault of Young Children
as Reported to Law Enforcement: Victim, Incident, and Offender Characteristics
Presents findings from
the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) regarding sexual assault,
especially of young children. The data are based on reports from law enforcement
agencies of 12 States and covers the years 1991 through 1996. The report
presents sexual assault in 4 categories: forcible rape, forcible sodomy,
sexual assault with an object, and forcible fondling. Findings include statistics
on the incidence of sexual assault, the victims, their offenders, gender,
response to these crimes, locality, time of incident,
the levels of victim injury, victims' perceptions of offenders' ages, and
victim-offender relationships, and other detailed characteristics. Highlights
include the following:
- Sixty-seven percent
of all victims of sexual assault reported to law enforcement agencies
were juveniles (under the age of 18); 34% of all victims were under
age 12.
- One of every
seven victims of sexual assault reported to law enforcement agencies
were under age 6.
- Forty percent
of the offenders who victimized children under age 6 were juveniles
(under the age of 18)
7/00 NCJ 182990
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