Essential facts on victims, crimes, & offenders. Includes: crime trends since 1973; victim characteristics; characteristics of rapes, robberies, assaults, larcenies, burglaries, motor thefts, etc.; violent offender characteristics; victim households, & much more. Chapters include the national crime victimization survey, a demography of victims, victims & offenders, geography & the crime event. Charts & tables.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice presents the full text of a report entitled "Criminal Victimization 1998: Changes 1997-98 with Trends 1993-98," by Callie Marie Rennison. The report highlights statistics on criminal victimization in the United States in 1998, as well as trends from 1993 to 1998. The statistics cover violent crime, property crime, murder, the use of weapons in violent crimes, and the victim-offender relationship.