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Fraud victims with some college or a college degree appear to be the most vulnerable to fraud schemes, with persons who did not graduate from high school being the least vulnerable.
Contradictory to common belief, older people are less likely to be victims of fraud than younger people. Older people are, however, more likely to report economic crimes than their younger counterparts. (Titus, Richard M., Fred Heinzelmann, and John M. Boyle, "Victimization of Persons by Fraud," Crime and Delinquency, 41:1 (January, 1995):58. U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, Washington, D.C.)
The results of a nationwide study of fraud conducted by the National Institute of Justice found that 58% of survey respondents reported having experienced a fraud victimization or an attempted fraud victimization. (Titus, Richard M., Fred Heinzelmann, and John M. Boyle,"The Anatomy of Fraud: Report of a Nationwide Survey", August 1995. National Institute of Justice Journal, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.)
It is estimated that as little as 15% of fraud victims report cases of fraud to the police or other law enforcement agencies. (Ibid.)
Of successful fraud attempts, respondents to a study conducted by the national Institute of Justice indicated that of those respondents who fell prey to a fraud scheme, 85 percent lost money or property; 20 percent suffered financial or personal credit problems; 14 percent suffered health or emotional problems directly related to their victimization; and 14 percent of fraud victims lost time from work. (Ibid, pg.54)
Nearly 30 percent of all female homicide victims were known to have been killed by their husbands, former husbands or boyfriends. In contrast, just over 3 percent of male homicide victims were known to have been killed by their wives, former wives, or girlfriends. (Ibid.)
Women were attacked seven time more often by offenders with whom they had an intimate relationship than were male violence victims. (Ibid.)
Forty-five percent of all violent attacks against female victims 12 years old and older by multiple offenders involve offenders they know. (Ibid.)
Robbery was the only crime in which women were likely to be victimized by strangers than by intimates, other family members, or acquaintances. (Bachman, Ronet, "Violence Against Women, A National Victimization Survey Report", January 1994. U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Washington, D.C.)
Personal crime is estimated to cost $105 billion annually in medical costs, lost earnings and public program costs related to victim assistance. When pain, suffering, and the reduced quality of life are assessed, the costs of personal crime increases to an estimated $450 billion annually. Violent crime results in lost wages equivalent to one percent of American earnings. (Ibid.)
Overall, rape has the highest annual victim costs at $127 billion per year (excluding child sex abuse), followed by assault at $93 billion, murder (excluding arson and drunk driving) at $61 billion, and child abuse at $56 billion. (Ibid.)
Female homicide victims are more than twice as likely to be killed by husbands or boyfriends than male victims are to killed by wives or girlfriends. Husbands and boyfriends are responsible for 26 percent of female homicides, whereas wives and girlfriends are responsible for three percent of male homicides. (Crime in the United States, 1995. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C.)
About nine out of 10 rape/sexual assault victimizations involved a single offender and with whom the victim had a prior relationship as a family member, intimate, or acquaintance. (Ibid.)
According to information reported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, in Estimates from the Redesigned Survey (1995) and Violence Between Intimates (1994): former husbands, boyfriends, and ex-boyfriends committed 26 percent of rapes and sexual assaults.
A large and increasing number of prison inmates are sexual offenders. In 1980, state prisons held 20,500 sex offenders. By 1994 over 88,000 sex offenders were held in state prisons , comprising nearly 10 percent of all state prison populations. (Finn, Peter, "Sexual Offender Community Notification, Research in Action", November 1996. U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, Washington, D.C.)
Based on the findings of a national survey of 4,008 adult women, a 1992 study found that every year in our country 683,000 women are forcibly raped. (Kilpatrick, D.C., C. Edmunds, A. Seymour, April 1992, "Rape in America: A Report to the Nation" from "The National Women's Study" sponsored by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Victim Center and National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina, Washington, D.C.)
Each year nearly one million individuals become victims of violent crime while working or on duty. Although men were more likely to be attacked at work by a stranger, women were more likely to be attacked by someone they knew. (Bachman, Ronet, Ph.D., July 1994, "Violence and Theft in the Workplace" Crime Data Brief: National Crime Victimization Survey, pg. 1. U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Washington, D.C.)
One-sixth of all workplace homicides of women are committed by a spouse, ex-spouse, boyfriend or ex-boyfriend. (Windau, J. & Toscano, G., "Workplace Homicides in 1992. Fatal Workplace Injuries in 1992: A Collection of Data and Analysis", May 1994, pg. 1. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C.)
Boyfriends and husbands, both current and former, commit more than 13,000 acts of violence against women in the workplace every year. (Anfuso, Dawn, "Deflecting Workplace Violence", Personnel Journal (73) 10:66, 1994)
Crime countdown in the United States:
(Crime in the United States, Uniform Crime Reports, 1995. U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C., released 10/96)
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