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KEY FINDINGS 
  • In 2008, 21 million crimes were committed in the United States; of these, 5 million were violent and 16 million were property crimes.[1]
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  • Forty-seven percent of violent crimes and 40 percent of property crimes were reported to the police.[2]
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  • An estimated 16,272 persons were murdered nationwide in 2008, a 3.9 percent decline from 2007.[3]
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  • In 2007, child protective services found approximately 794,000 children to be victims of child abuse or neglect.[4]
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  • In 2008, victims age 12 or older experienced a total of 203,830 rapes or sexual assaults.[5]
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  • During a one-year period, 3.4 million people age 18 or older in the United States were stalked; of these, 2,531,770 were women and 892,340 were men.[6]
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  • In 2007, youth ages 12 to 24 experienced the highest rates of victimization.[7]
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  • In 2007, teens ages 12 to 19 experienced 1.6 million violent crimes.[8]
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  • In a 1999 study, more than a quarter of people with severe mental illness had been victims of a violent crime in the past year, a rate more than 11 times higher than that of the general population, even after controlling for demographic differences.[9]
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  • There were 11,773 alcohol-impaired driving fatalities in 2008, a decline of 9.7 percent from 2007.[10]
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  • In 2007, 91,590 persons over the age of 65 were victims of violent crime.[11]
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  • In 2007, 7,624 hate crime incidents were reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation by local law enforcement agencies.[12]
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  • In 2008, the incidence of identity fraud rose for the first time in five years to nearly 10 million from victims up from 8.1 million in 2007.[13]
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  • In 2008, 20 percent of all violent crime incidents were committed by an armed offender, and 7 percent by an offender with a firearm.[14]
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  • Of the 621,450 violent crimes committed in the workplace in 2007, 492,790 were simple assaults, 97,830 were aggravated assaults, 23,270 were robberies, and 7,550 were rapes or sexual assaults.[15]
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  • In 2007, 15 percent of violent crimes and 94 percent of property crimes resulted in economic losses from theft or damage.[16]
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  • In 2008, 88,432 crimes were reported to police on college and university campuses; 97 percent were property crimes, and 3 percent violent crimes.[17]
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  • In 2007, persons ages 12 or older with disabilities experienced approximately 716,000 non-fatal violent crimes and 2.3 million property crimes.[18]
  • Youth ages 12 to 19 with a disability experienced violence at nearly twice the rate of those without a disability.[19]
  • The International Labor Organization (ILO)-the United Nations agency charged with addressing labor standards, employment, and social protection issues-estimates that there are at least 12.3 million adults and children in forced labor, bonded labor, and commercial sexual servitude at any given time.[20]

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    [1] Michael Rand, "Criminal Victimization, 2008," (Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2009), 1, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cv08.pdf (accessed November 3, 2009).

    [2] Ibid., 6.

    [3] Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Crime in the United States, 2008: Murder," (Washington, DC: GPO, 2009), http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/offenses/violent_crime/murder_homicide.html (accessed November 3, 2009).

    [4] Child Maltreatment, 2007, (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, 2009), 23, http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm07/cm07.pdf (accessed November 3, 2009).

    [5] "Criminal Victimization, 2008," 1.

    [6] Katrina Baum, Shannan Catalano, Michael Rand and Kristina Rose, "Stalking Victimization in the United States," (Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2009), 1, calculated from data on p. 3, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/svus.pdf (accessed September 3, 2009).

    [7] "Criminal Victimization, 2008," 4.

    [8] Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2007: Statistical Tables," (soon to be published), data extrapolated from Table 3.

    [9] Linda Teplin et al., "Crime Victimization in Adults with Severe Mental Illness: Comparison with the National Crime Victimization Survey," Archives of General Psychiatry 62 (2005): 914, http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/62/8/911 (accessed November 3, 2009).

    [10] National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, "2008 Traffic Safety Annual Assessment-Highlights," (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Transportation, 2009), Table 3, http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811172.pdf (accessed August 26, 2009).

    [11]  Data extrapolated from Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2007: Statistical Tables," (soon to be published), Table 4.

    [12] Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Hate Crime Statistics 2007," (Washington, DC: GPO, 2008), Table 1, http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2007/table_01.htm (accessed November 3, 2009).

    [13] Javelin Strategy and Research, "2009 Identity Fraud Survey Report: Consumer Version," (Pleasanton, CA: Javelin, 2009), 5, http://www.idsafety.net/report.html (accessed November 3, 2009).

    [14] Rand, "Criminal Victimization, 2008," 6.

    [15] Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2007: Statistical Tables," (soon to be published), calculated from Table 64.

    [16] Ibid., Table 81.

    [17] Data calculated from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Crime in the United States, 2008, Table 9," (Washington, DC: GPO, 2009), http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/data/documents/08tbl09.xls (accessed October 5, 2009).

    [18] Michael R. Rand and Erika Harrell, "Crime Against People with Disabilities, 2007," (Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2009), 1, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/capd07.pdf (accessed October 8, 2009).

    [19] Ibid., 2.

    [20] U.S. Department of State, "Trafficking in Persons Report: June 2009," (Washington, DC: GPO, 2009), 8, http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/123357.pdf (accessed October 8, 2009).

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