- There was an average of 51,000 sexual assaults occurring in the workplace within a 4 year time span.
- One out of every six American women have been the victims of an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime (14.8% completed rape; 2.8% attempted rape).
- A total of 17.7 million women have been victims of these crimes.
- In 2002, seven out of every eight rape victims were female.
- Lifetime rate of rape/attempted rape (women):
All: 17.6%
(approx. 1 in 5)
White: 17.7%
Black: 18.8%
Asian.Pacific
Islander: 6.8%
Am. Indian/Alaskan:
34.1%
Mixed Race:
24.4%
- Blacks are about 10% more likely to be attacked than whites.
- Approximately 66% of rape victims know their attacker
- Approximately 48% of victims are raped by a friend or acquaintance; 30% by a stranger; 16% by an intimate; 2% by another relative; and in 4% of cases the relationship is unknown.
- The average age of rapists at arrest is 31.
- Fifty-two percent are white; twenty-two percent of imprisoned rapists report that they are married.
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