Victime of Crime

Although people are afraid, street crime is less dangerous than riding in an automobile, working around the house, swimming, or any number of other activities in which Americans engage without much concern. The chances of being killed in an automobile accident are 10 times greater than those of being murdered by a stranger, and the risk of death from a fall (such as slipping in the shower or tumbling from a ladder) are three times as great.

National victimization surveys show that people most likely to be victims of violent crimes are males, youths, poor people, and blacks. Often they do not indicate the sex or age characteristics of the heads of households victimized by burglary. They do show that the rate of victimization by burglary is more than one and one-half times as high for black families as for white ones (A National..., 1973, p. 14).

These statistics do not mean that people who come from higher socioeconomic groups do not suffer from victimization. The second most likely victim of spouse abuse is the spo

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f personal larceny and 50 percent of the robbery victims were more than 40 years old, whereas 50 percent of the assault victims were less than 25. In general, victims of crime in San Jose were likely to be less than 25, regardless of their sex or of the crime committed against them. Dayton victims were not likely to be so young unless they were male victims of assault or females assaulted by a relative or acquaintance (Kalish, 1974, p. 20). Three-fifths of the victims in the Dayton metropolitan area lived inside the central city. Only two-fifths of the San Jose area victims lived inside the central city, a reflection of the fact that San Jose has several large satellite cities to Dayton's one. In both cities virtually none of the suburban victims of crime lived in low-income areas, whereas a third of the central city dwellers lived in the poorer neighborhoods. In San Jose the probability of becoming a victim of crime was no greater for persons living in low-income areas than it was for persons living in other areas, but in Dayton residents of low-income areas were twice as likely to be victims of crime as residents of more prosperous areas. The victimization rates for people in Dayton and San Jose, like so many other aspect
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