Uniform Crime Report

OUR STATISTICAL UNDERSTANDING OF RAPE COMES FROM BASICALLY THREE SOURCES:

FBI - UNIFORM CRIME REPORT (UCR)
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE/CENSUS BUREAU - NATIONAL CRIME SURVEY (NCS), AND
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH; SURVEYS OFTEN DONE ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES

HOW WIDE SPREAD IS RAPE?

FBI DEFINITION (2007 Uniform Crime Report)

"FORCIBLE RAPE IS THE CARNAL KNOWLEDGE OF A FEMALE FORCIBLY AND AGAINST HER WILL. ASSAULTS OR ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT RAPE BY FORCE OR THREAT OF FORCE ARE INCLUDED; HOWEVER, STATUTORY RAPE (WITHOUT FORCE) AND OTHER SEX OFFENSES ARE EXCLUDED

WHAT REMAINS EXCLUDED?

FORCED PARTICIPATION IN ORAL SEX AND ANAL INTERCOURSE (OFTEN COVERED IN SODOMY LAWS)
FORCED OR COERCED PARTICIPATION OF A MALE BY A FEMALE OR ANOTHER MALE; OR FORCED SEXUAL ACTIVITY OF A FEMALE BY ANOTHER FEMALE. (THIS FOLLOWS FROM #1)
COERCED INTERCOURSE BY THREAT TOWARD ECONOMIC WELL BEING, PROFESSIONAL STANDING, SOCIAL INJURY ETC.

UNIFORM CRIME REPORT IS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS

TYPE ONE OFFENSES OR INDEX CRIMES

AND

TYPE TWO OFFENSES (SODOMY OFFENSES ARE INCLUDED HERE FOR THE MOST PART)

INDEX CRIMES ARE FURTHER DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS;
CRIMES AGAINST PERSONS; MURDER, RAPE, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, ROBBERY,

AND

CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY; THEFT, ARSON, BURGLARY, AUTOMOBILE THEFT

INDEX CRIME DISTRIBUTION (from UCR 2002)

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INDEX CRIMES INCLUDE CRIMES REPORTED TO THE POLICE AS WELL AS ARREST STATISTICS

For Up to date data, check the FBI homepage, This will take you to current statistics.

RAPES KNOWN TO POLICE
1960	17,190 (9.6 PER 100,000)
1970	39,990 (18.7)
1980	82,990 (36.8)
1990	102,560 (41.2)
1996	95,796 (36.1)
1997	96,122 (35.9)
1999	89,411 (32.8) (ONLY FEMALE POP. = 64.1
2000	90,186 (32.0)
2001	90,863 (31.8)
2002	95,136 (33.1) (ONLY FEMALE POP. = 65
2003	93,433 (32.1)(ONLY FEMALE POP. = 63.2)

THE RATE IN 1994 = 77, RAPE IN 2003 IS DOWN 17.9% FOR THE 10 YEAR TREND

PERCENT OF RAPES BY REGION 2002 and (2003)
NORTHWEST = 13.5% -- 46.4 per 100,000 females (13.4% -- 45.3)
MIDWEST = 25.3% -- 72.7 per 100,000 (22.5% -- 70.4)
SOUTHERN = 37.5% -- 67.9 per 100,000 (37.6% -- 66.1)
WEST = 23.7% -- 67.4 per 100,000 (24% --66.3)

PERCENT OF RAPES BY REGION (2000)
NORTHWEST = 13.2% -- 43.5 per 100,000 females
MIDWEST = 25% 68.4 per 100,000 females
SOUTHERN = 38% 66.9 per 100,000 females
WEST = 23.8% 66.5 per 100,000 females

Cleared means by arrest or

Execptional Means
"When elements beyond law enforcement's control prevent the agency from placing formal charges against the offender, the agency can clear the offense exceptionally. According to UCR Program guidelines, an agency can clear an offense exceptionally if it adheres to all of the following criteria. The agency must have:
Identified the offender. Gathered enough evidence to support an arrest, make a charge, and turn over the offender to the court for prosecution. Identified the offender's exact location so that law enforcement can make an arrest. Encountered a circumstance outside the control of law enforcement that prohibits the agency from arresting, charging, and prosecuting an offender. Examples of exceptional clearances include, but are not limited to, the death of the offender (suicide, justifiably killed by police or private citizens, etc.); the victim's refusal to cooperate with the prosecution after having identified the offender; or the denial of extradition because the offender committed a crime in another jurisdiction and is being prosecuted. In the UCR Program, the recovery of property does not clear an offense. (Uniform Crime Report 2007)"

ARRESTS
1981 = 19,724
1990 = 24,725
1997 = 32,060
2000 = 27,469 (CLEARED 46.9% OF REPORTED RAPES)
2002 = 28,288 (CLEARED 44.5% OF REPORTED RAPES)
2003 = (44%)

BASED ON 10, 206 AGENCIES IN 1990
30,966 OF WHICH
30,630 WERE MALE 98.9%
336 WERE FEMALE 1.1%

BASED ON 10,110 AGENCIES
16,973 WERE WHITE
13,309 WERE BLACK
249 WERE AMERICAN INDIAN
271 WERE ASIAN

(in 1997, 56% of all arrested offenders were white)
( in 2002, 63.4% were white)

AGE (OF THOSE CASES CLEARED in 2002)
UNDER AGE 10 = 42	10-12 = 336	13-14 = 865	15 = 562
16 =672	17 = 884	18 = 1,028	19 = 1,029	20 = 906
21 = 901	22 = 722	23 = 733	24 = 622
25-29 = 2,465	30-34 = 2,465	35-39 = 2,158	40-44 = 1,622
45-49 = 994	50-54 = 520	55-59 = 3049	60-64 = 166	65 & OVER = 202

IN 2002

16.7% UNDER 18

In 2000

11.8% IN CITIES
15% IN RURAL COUNTIES
16% IN CITIES 25,000 - 49,999

(in 2000 45.4% of those arrested were uncer 25 years of age)

RAPE ARRESTS BY REGION (1997)
SINCE LATE 1970S ARREST RATES HAVE BEEN CLOSE
NORTHEAST = 13.8
MIDWEST = 15.7
SOUTH = 17.3
WEST = 16.2

RURAL/ URBAN DIFFERENCES
CITIES OVER 250,000 POPULATION (59)
REPRESENTS 43,676,000 POP.
30,109 KNOWN TO POLICE
54.2% CLEARED

CITIES 100,000 - 249,999 (125)
18,089,000 POP.
10,666 KNOWN TO POLICE
50.8 % CLEARED

CITIES 50,000-99,999 (336)
22,899,000 POP.
9,597 KNOWN TO POLICE
49.0 % CLEARED

CITIES 25,000-49,999 (658)
22,819,000 POP.
7,519 KNOWN
52.1 CLEARED

CITIES 10,000 - 24,999 (1,549)
24,496,000 POP.
6,125 KNOWN
52.2 CLEARED

CITIES UNDER 10,000 (6,376)
22,165,000 POP.
4,733 KNOWN
57.1 CLEARED

SUBURBAN COUNTIES (1,199 AGENCIES)
45,906,000 POP.
15,184 KNOWN
52.5 CLEARED

RURAL COUNTIES (2,752 AGENCIES)
27,445,000 POP.
6,378 KNOWN
54.4 CLEARED

IN 2002 DULUTH HAD 3 RAPES

UMD = 0 AND TWIN CITIES CAMPUS = 2

Minnesota Statistics

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT RAPE FROM UCR?
ONLY WOMEN ARE VICITMS!!
ALTHOUGH ALL WOMEN ARE VICTIMS, VICTIMS MORE LIKELY TO BE YOUNGER, UNDER 25
VICTIMS ARE LIKELY TO BE UNMARRIED, AND FROM LOWER SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS
WOMEN ARE TWICE AS LIKELY TO BE RAPED BY STRANGERS;
RAPES TEND TO TAKE PLACE AT NIGHT BETWEEN 6 PM AND 6 AM (73%);
MOST ARE NOT COMPLETED; AND MOST ARE BY A LONE OFFENDER
CURRENTLY THE UNFOUNDED RATE IS 8% COMPARED TO 2% FOR OTHER INDEX CRIMES
RAPE RATES FLUCTUATE BUT HAVE BEEN GOING DOWN SINCE 1983

RATES OF UNFOUNDED RAPE

"When, through investigation, an agency determines that complaints of crimes are unfounded or false, the agency eliminates that offense from its crime tally through an entry on the monthly report." 2007 UCR REPORT http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/about/table_methodology.html