NCJ Number
183011
Date Published
January 2000
Length
25 pages
Annotation
This report contains statistics on violent crimes committed against senior citizens in California, 1998.
Abstract
The report contains information about reported violent crimes committed against members of the population who were 60 years of age and older. It is based on information reported from local city police departments, county sheriff offices, the California Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies that report monthly to the Department of Justice. It reports on four types of violent crime, pursuant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program guidelines: homicide, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault. In 1998 senior citizens represented 14.1 percent of the total population, but experienced only 3.2 percent of the total reported violent crime. Aggravated assault accounted for 30.8 percent of the total crimes reported against senior citizens and robbery accounted for 64.9 percent. The senior citizen population experienced a 53.6-percent decline in the homicide rate from 1988 to 1998 and a 49.7-percent decline in forcible rape during the same period. Tables, figures, notes, appendixes