Table 2.  Rates of violent crime and personal theft, by sex,
age, race, and Hispanic origin, 1996                           
             
                        Victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older  
               -----------------------------------------------------------------           
                                  Violent crimes 
               --------------------------------------------------------                    
         
                                             
                         All                              Assault
Character-               crimes    Rape/           --------------------   Per- 
istics of      Popu-     of        Sexual   Rob-         Aggra-           sonal  
victims        lation    violence* assault   bery  Total  vated   Simple   theft           
      

Sex                                     
 Male      105,054,160    49.9        .4      7.2    42.3  11.6    30.8    1.3 
 Female    112,180,110    34.6       2.3      3.4    28.9   6.2    22.7    1.6 
                                        
Age                                            
 12-15      15,587,620    95.0       2.6     10.0    82.3  15.6    66.8    3.3 
 16-19      14,866,000   102.7       4.9     12.0    85.7  25.3    60.4    2.5 
 20-24      17,533,290    74.3       2.1     10.0    62.2  15.9    46.4    2.9 
 25-34      40,876,720    51.1       1.8      7.1    42.2   9.8    32.4    1.2 
 35-49      61,741,430    32.8       1.3      3.8    27.7   7.4    20.3    1.0 
 50-64      34,889,360    15.7        .1      1.8    13.8   3.8    10.0    1.2 
 65 or 
  older     31,739,850     4.9         0      1.1     3.8    .8     3.0     .7 
                                      
Race                                            
 White     182,853,380    40.9       1.3      4.2    35.3   8.2    27.2    1.4 
 Black      26,274,270    52.3       1.8     11.4    39.1  13.4    25.6    1.9 
 Other       8,106,620    33.2       2.1      7.4    23.8   7.2    16.6    1.3 
 
Hispanic 
  origin                                            
 Hispanic   20,502,470    44.0       1.2      8.4    34.5  10.6    23.9    2.7 
 Non-   
  Hispanic 194,729,590    41.6       1.4      4.9    35.3   8.5    26.8    1.3 

* The National Crime Victimization Survey includes as violent
crime rape/sexual assault, robbery, and assault but not murder
or manslaughter.