Juvenile Rape Victims in Alabama: A Statistical Analysis of Juvenile Rape: The Victims, the Offenders, and their Relationships

• NCJ Number: 182056
• Author(s): Carol Cobert Roberts
• Date Published: 1999
• Length: 35 pages
• Grant Number(s): 98-JB-VX-K001
• Sponsoring Agency: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
• Corporate Author: Alabama Criminal Justice Information Ctr
• Sale Source: Alabama Criminal Justice Information Ctr; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Offense reports from Alabama police agencies to the State’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program for 1994-98 provided information on female juvenile rape victims, the offenders who committed rapes against juveniles, and their relationships to their victims.

Abstract

The data excluded statutory rape. Thirty-nine percent of all rape victims were age 17 years or younger; 26 percent were ages 13-16 years. Rape victims age 12 and under represented 9 percent of all victims. The greatest number of offenders in juvenile rapes were age 18, followed by those ages 17 and 19 years. The largest number of juvenile rapes in the 5-year period occurred between 14-year-old victims and 17-year-old offenders. The victim was an acquaintance or friend of the offender in 60 percent of the sexual assaults against juveniles; the victim was related to the offender in 20 percent of the offenses. Sixty-four percent of the rapes of victims ages 12-16 years were acquaintance rapes. The largest percentage of incest cases or family rapes was for victims ages 11 and under. Tables