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Article: Study Shows 80 Percent of Murder Victims Knew Their Killer, Says Bureau of Justice Statistics
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- U.S. Newswire
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- May 12, 1993
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WASHINGTON, May 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In a study
of prosecuted murder cases, about 80 percent of murder victims
knew their killers and 16 percent were related to their
killers, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today.
BJS, a Department of Justice agency, said more than half of the
victims had a romantic or social relationship with their murderers.
The data are based on an analysis of the homicide cases in which
there was an arrest and prosecution in the nation's 75 most
populous counties during 1988, BJS said. Almost half of the
victims died in fights with the offender arising from property
disputes, domestic arguments, insults or feuds. An estimated
11 percent were ...