{"id":7,"date":"2005-06-13T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2005\/06\/13\/decline-in-family-and-nonfamily-violent-and-nonviolent-crime\/"},"modified":"2005-06-13T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-14T02:44:00","slug":"decline-in-family-and-nonfamily-violent-and-nonviolent-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2005\/06\/13\/decline-in-family-and-nonfamily-violent-and-nonviolent-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"decline in family (and nonfamily) violent (and nonviolent) crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojp.usdoj.gov\/bjs\/pub\/press\/fvspr.htm\">Department of Justice<\/a> recently ran a press release noting &#8220;the rate of family violence fell by more than one-half between 1993 and 2002, from an estimated 5.4 victims to 2.1 victims per 1,000 U.S. residents 12 years old and older.&#8221; But violence overall is declining as well, as are property crimes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 2003 rate of reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojp.usdoj.gov\/bjs\/glance\/tables\/vsxtab.htm\">violent victimization<\/a> (homicide, rape, robbery, and assault) is half the 1995 rate.<\/li>\n<li>The 2003 rate of reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojp.usdoj.gov\/bjs\/glance\/tables\/proptrdtab.htm\">property victimization<\/a> is half the 1992 rate and one-third the 1982 rate. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojp.usdoj.gov\/bjs\/abstract\/fvs.htm\">report<\/a> and the rates cited above are all based on high quality data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (the 1993 start date is important because the NCVS had a major redesign in &#8217;93 that clearly affected reporting of family violence). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice recently ran a press release noting &#8220;the rate of family violence fell by more than one-half between 1993 and 2002, from an estimated 5.4 victims to 2.1 victims per 1,000 U.S. residents 12 years old and older.&#8221; But violence overall is declining as well, as are property crimes. The 2003 rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}