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FBI Releases
2013 Crime Statistics
Today, the FBI released details on more than 5.6 million criminal
offenses reported via the National Incident-Based Reporting System
(NIBRS) in 2013. The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s latest
report, NIBRS 2013, provides a diverse scope of information about
victims, known offenders, and relationships for 23 offense categories
(including sex offenses). It also presents arrest data for those
offense categories plus 11 more.
Unlike data reported via the Summary Reporting System in Crime in the
United States, data in NIBRS 2013 include all offenses within an
incident, as well as additional aspects about each event such as
location, time of day, and clearances. NIBRS 2013 also provides
agency-level offense data by state; however, there are no estimates for
agencies that did not submit NIBRS data to the UCR Program.
In 2013, 6,328 law enforcement agencies, representing coverage for more
than 92 million U.S. inhabitants, submitted NIBRS data. While not yet
nationally representative, this coverage represents 34.4 percent of all
law enforcement agencies that participate in the UCR Program.
NIBRS agencies reported 4,927,535 incidents that involved 5,665,902
offenses, 5,980,569 victims, and 4,517,902 known offenders. In
addition, these agencies reported 1,533,671 arrestees.
Of the reported offenses, 64.7 percent involved crimes against property
(i.e., those crimes in which the object is property), 22.8 percent
involved crimes against persons, (i.e., crimes whose victims are always
individuals), and 12.6 percent included crimes against society (i.e.,
typically “victimless crimes” that represent society’s prohibition
against engaging in certain types of activity, such as gambling).
NIBRS victim types, collected for all reported offenses, may be an
individual, a business, an institution, or society as a whole. Of the
4,224,061 individual victims reported in 2013, 24.2 percent were
between the ages of 21 and 30 years of age. Half (50.9 percent) were
female, 48.3 percent were male, and sex was unknown for 0.8 percent.
The majority (72.3 percent) were white, 21.1 percent were black or
African-American, 1.2 percent were Asian, 0.5 percent were American
Indian or Alaska Native, and less than 0.1 percent were Native Hawaiian
or Other Pacific Islander. Race was unknown for 4.8 percent of victims.
In 2013, there were 4,517,902 known offenders, meaning that some aspect
of the suspect—such as the age, sex, or race—was identified and
reported. Of these, nearly a third (33.1 percent) were between 16 and
25 years of age. By gender, 63.9 percent were male, and 25.0 percent
were female; gender was unknown for 11.1 percent. By race, the majority
(56.5 percent) of known offenders were white, 28.1 percent were black
or African-American, and 1.6 percent were of other races. The race was
unknown for 13.8 percent of reported known offenders.
Concerning the relationship of victims to offenders, there were
1,305,497 victims of known offenders of crimes against persons (e.g.,
murders, sex offenses, assault offenses) and robbery offenses from the
crimes against property category. Of these, 52.8 percent of victims
knew their offenders (or at least one offender where more than one was
present) but did not have a familial relationship to them. Nearly a
quarter (24.8 percent) of victims were related to their offenders (or
at least one offender where more than one was present).
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