Prevalence of Violent Crime among Households with Children, 1993-2010.

摘要

In 2010, approximately 2.8 million children, representing 3.9% of all children age 17 or younger living in U.S. households, lived in a household in which at least one member age 12 or older experienced one or more nonfatal violent victimizations during the year. This was a decline from 1993, when an estimated 8.7 million children, or 12.6% of all children age 17 or younger, lived in a household that experienced a violent victimization. The decline in the number of children living in a household in which at least one member experienced violent crime corresponds with the decline in overall violent victimization during the same period. The statistics in this report were developed from the Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which annually collects information on nonfatal victimizations against persons age 12 or older, reported and not reported to the police, from a nationally representative sample of U.S. households. This report focuses on children living in households in which at least one member age 12 or older was the victim of a nonfatal violent crime during a given year. As defined in the NCVS, nonfatal violent victimizations include rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault. The NCVS does not measure homicide.