NCJ Number
142601
Date Published
1987
Length
89 pages
Annotation
Data provided by the Homicide Project of the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics were used to describe the characteristics of native and nonnative homicide victimization for the 1962-1984 period.
Abstract
The report presents empirical data on both the sociodemographic characteristics (gender, age, and marital status) associated with native and nonnative victimization as well as characteristics of the victimization incidents, namely, the victim-suspect relationship, the location of offense, the presence of alcohol, apparent motive, the means of offense, the type of firearm used in shooting incidents, and the type of offense as initially determined by the police. The analysis suggests that natives may be as much as eight times as likely as nonnatives to be victims of murder or manslaughter. In a number of dimensions, the victimization of natives differs from that of nonnatives. For the total period between 1962 and 1984, just over one-third of native victims and nonnative victims were women. Two-thirds of the native women and 46 percent of the nonnative women were murdered by a family member. For both native and nonnative groups, men were more likely than women to be shot. 15 notes, 30 tables, and 76 references