Study Shows 80 Percent of Murder Victims Knew Their Killer, Says Bureau of...

U.S. Newswire;  May 12, 1993 ;     683 words ......prosecuted murder cases, about 80 percent of murder victims knew their killers and 16...to 11 percent of the male victims. Ten percent of the female victims were...Lawrence A. Greenfeld. "About 75 percent of the victims were male, just over 50 percent...

Black Americans Were Victims in 15 Percent of All Nonfatal Violent Crimes...

U.S. Newswire;  August 9, 2007 ;     738 words ......29, compared to about 37 percent of white victims. About half of homicides...offender homicides, about 93 percent of black victims were murdered by black offenders...whites and Hispanics. About 9 percent of black victims of violence used the services...

POLICE SAY 85 PERCENT OF VICTIMS KNEW KILLER

The Boston Globe;  August 6, 1990 ;   Anthony Flint, Globe Staff;   608 words ...In more than 85 percent of Boston's homicide...half of 1990, the victims and their accused...people. Seventy-two percent of all homicide victims were under 30 years old and 80 percent of those accused...In 1985, only 56 percent of those accused...were known to the victims. "We ...

50 percent of robbery victims get attacked

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 26, 1987 ;   Lori Santos;   359 words ......While the study showed a 15 percent decline in robbery rates...period, largely due to a 29 percent drop in attempted robberies...same. Two-thirds of the victims each year lost money or...their attackers were male 90 percent of the time, the report...women were more likely to be victims. ...

HAITI-POPULATION: 70 PERCENT OF HAITIAN WOMEN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  December 4, 1996 ;   Ives Marie Chanel;   787 words ......victimized between the ages of 10 and 34 years of age, 15 percent had suffered attacks before the age of 15, and three percent prior to the age of 10. By cross-referencing these statistics...years from 10 to 19 being critical, accounting for 44 percent of cases. Sexual violence accounts for 46 ...

Many Phila. homicide victims had records: More than 70 percent of those...

Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  January 23, 2006 ;   Moran, Robert;   787 words ......Increasing numbers of victims had criminal pasts. More than 70 percent of those killed last...through Jan. 8, 12 of 46 victims -- 26 percent -- had 10 arrests or...But Philadelphia's high percentage of victims with arrest records is...

11.5 percent of families victims of crime

The Manila Times;  February 6, 2008 ;   Lontayao, Rommel C;   422 words ...About 11.5 percent of Filipino families have become victims of common crimes in the...SWS survey found that 10.5 percent of families lost property...victimized by pickpockets and 3 percent were victimized by burglary...survey also showed that 1.9 percent of motor vehicle owners were ...

7.8 percent of families victims of theft

The Manila Times;  May 27, 2008 ;   Lontayao, Rommel C;   211 words ......featured declines in pickpocket victims (8.6 percent to 1.9 percent) as well as carnapping victims (7.8 percent to 1.5 percent). The burglary and physical violence victims, however, slightly increased by...

Violent crime in '97 drops 7 percent: Rate lowest since '73 victim...

The Washington Times;  December 28, 1998 ;   Price, Joyce Howard;   542 words ......in America fell nearly 7 percent during 1997 to the lowest...crime rate also dipped 7 percent from the previous year. The...situations in which Americans were victims of those crimes, down from...reduction. It fell more than 17 percent between 1996 and 1997. The...in 1997 represented a 28 ...

REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS

Albuquerque Journal;  December 20, 2007 ;     2 words ...Caption text only.

STUDY LOOKS AT MOST LIKELY PEDESTRIAN DEATH VICTIMS THE 4,882 PEDESTRIAN...

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  April 23, 2003 ;     358 words ......There were 4,882 pedestrian deaths in 2001, about 12 percent of the 42,116 traffic deaths, the National Highway Traffic...study being released Tuesday. That was a decrease of 16 percent from a decade earlier. People 70 and older accounted for nearly 20 percent of all pedestrian deaths in 2001, giving a ...

62 Percent of Canada's Sex Victims Under 18

Xinhua English Newswire;  March 30, 1999 ;     128 words ......two-thirds of sexual- assault victims are younger than 18 and close...Canadian police in 1997, 62 percent, or about 19,000, were young...released on Saturday. Thirty percent of the total, or about 9,200...of 11 or younger, while 32 percent, about 9,800, were 12 to 17...

New Poll: Public Divided on Regulating Appearance -- From Weight to...

PR Newswire;  March 22, 2005 ;     665 words ......weight. In the survey released today, 39 percent said employers should have the right to...It has a confidence interval of +/- 3.1 percent. The sample was representative of the...The ELA survey showed that of the 16 percent who claim they've been the victim of appearance-bas...

ELDER ABUSE REPORTS UP 15 PERCENT IN STATE RISE IN REPORTED CASES IS...

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  September 12, 2003 ;     306 words ......County, the increase in elder-abuse allegations was 11 percent. The state, which defines elder as 60 years old, reports...accounted for about half of the cases in 2002; neglect (13 percent); emotional abuse (8 percent) and financial exploitation (19 percent), according to the annual Wisconsin ...

44 percent of Thai women in survey say they are victims of domestic...

AP Worldstream;  November 1, 2001 ;   BUSABA SIVASOMBOON, Associated Press Writer;   428 words ......Thailand Forty-four percent of Thai women interviewed...said they have been victims of domestic violence...Archavanitkul said 12 percent of the victims of domestic violence...were pregnant. Nine percent said they had been...interviews with known victims, she said, adding...Colombia ...