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From: mom@sftri.UUCP (Mark Modig)
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Subject: Re: \"Why not send the men home?\"
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Date: Sat, 11-May-85 17:44:39 EDT
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> >> 4 out of 5 homocide victims are women.

> >Incidentally, I'm not sure where you get your statistics, but at *least*
> >one of them is wrong.  The majority of homicide victims are men, not women.
> 
> According to the FBI National Crime Statistics, 4 out of 5 homocide
> victims are women.  
> 
> Miche Baker-Harvey
> 	{decvax|ihnp4}!masscomp!galaxy!miche

I'm sorry, but it is simply NOT true that four out of five homicide
victims are women.  In the figures I have, three out of four
homicide victims are MEN.

                    HOMICIDES IN THE U.S.

               Male victims              Female victims

1970           15838                     4594
1981           18572                     5074
1982           17448                     4723

This works out to about a 3 to 1 ratio in "favor" of the males.

Sources:
1970 & 1981 "Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1985",
            Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census

1982        "Crime in the U.S.", 1982 edition, published Sept. 1983.
            Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation

The proportions have remained pretty constant over the last 25 years
[Stat. Abstracts goes back to about 1960], I think, and I don't think
the murder rates have changed so dramatically in the last two years.
Perhaps you should check your sources one more time?

The other figures seem reasonable to me, at least in the right
ballpark, unfortunately.  Anyone who wants to know anything about
this country will probably find the first source pretty useful.  Any
local public library worth its salt will have one, usually in the
reference department.  Unfortunately, they seem to be a few years
behind. [Actually, I wish I was that caught up myself.]

Mark Modig
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