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Item # Topic/Issue Summary Nation(s) Year(s) Citation Institution(s)
58 Violence

Men (18+) more likely to experience violence (8.7% vs 5.3%)

Australia 2012 Measuring the Prevalence of Violence Bureau of Statistics details
145 Violence

10% of boys (vs. 2% of girls) suffered non-sexual genital assault; 40% of perpetrators were girls

United States 1996 The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.23 details
146 Violence

Middle school boys 50% more likely to be beaten up while at school

Canada 1996 The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.23 details
147 Violence

Middle school boys 120% more likely to be robbed while at school

Canada 1996 The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.23 details
148 Violence

Middle school boys and girls were equally likely to be victims OR perpetrators of violent acts

Canada 1996 The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.23 details
149 Violence

Middle school boys 1.79x more likely to have been slapped, punched, or kicked while in school

Canada 1996 The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.23 details
258 Violence

Number of cross-sex homicides is nearly identical across genders

United States 1974 The Battered Husband Syndrome, p. 504 University of Delaware details
410 Violence

Men 25% more likely to be victim of a violent crime (29.1% vs. 23.3%)

United States 2012 Criminal Victimization 2012, p. 7, table 7 Department of Justice details
411 Violence

Men 70% more likely to be victim of a serious violent crime (9.4% vs. 6.6%)

United States 2012 Criminal Victimization 2012, p. 7, table 7 Department of Justice details
490 Violence

Women are twice as fearful for their lives as men given a similar objective probability of death

Canada 1999 Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, pp. 19-20 details
550 Violence

Women have a hightened sense of fear of violent crime despite less objective risk (and a low “perceived likelihood that they would happen”)

United States 2003 Women’s and Men’s Fear of Gang Crimes: Sexual and Nonsexual Assault as Perceptually Contemporaneous Offenses, pp. 338-340, 352, 363 University of Florida, University of California details
552 Violence

In examining who is afraid of crime and why, virtually every study has come up with the conclusion that women and the elderly fear crime the most, and this fear is not justified by their victimization rate.

Canada 1999 Fear of Crime The John Howard Society of Alberta details
584 Violence

In 11 out of 13 states (85%), boys are physically abused more than girls

India 2007 Study on Child Abuse: India 2007, p.45 Government of India details
585 Violence

In 11 out of 13 states (85%), boys are physically abused in multiple contexts (by parents, by non-parents, at school, at other institutions) more often than girls

India 2007 Study on Child Abuse: India 2007, p.47 Government of India details
588 Violence

Of children in need of care and protection who go into children’s homes and shelter homes, boys are physically abused 70% more often than girls (66.18% vs. 38.92%)

India 2007 Study on Child Abuse: India 2007, p.55 Government of India details
594 Violence

Boys are emotionally abused as often as girls (49.99% vs. 50.01%)

India 2007 Study on Child Abuse: India 2007, p. 106 Government of India details
633 Violence

94.8% of victims of police shootings are male

United States 2015 Fatal police shootings in 2015 approaching 400 nationwide Washington Post details
677 Violence

In workhouses, it was illegal to inflict corporal punishment on adults and female children. The only class of human that could be legally corporally punished was male children.

United Kingdom 1855 The Parish Officer… details
691 Violence

A man is >3x as likely to kill another man than to kill a woman (67.8% vs. 21.0% of all homicides)

United States 2010 Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 9 Department of Justice details
692 Violence

A woman is >4x as likely to kill a man than to kill another woman (9.0% vs. 2.2% of all homicides)

United States 2010 Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 9 Department of Justice details
693 Violence

A man is 4.7x as likely to be killed by a gun than is a woman (82.6 vs. 17.4%)

United States 2010 Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 10 Department of Justice details
694 Violence

A man is 81% more likely to be the victim in a multiple-victim homicide (e.g. – mass shooting) than a woman (64.4% vs. 35.6%)

United States 2010 Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 10 Department of Justice details
695 Violence

A man is 4x as likely to be the victim in a workplace homicide than a woman (79.1% vs. 20.9%)

United States 2010 Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 10 Department of Justice details
696 Violence

A man is >2x as likely to be the victim of homicide by a stranger than a woman (25.5% vs. 11.9%)

United States 2010 Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 10 Department of Justice details
697 Violence

A man is >2x as likely to be the victim of homicide by a stranger than a woman (25.5% vs. 11.9%)

United States 2010 Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 10 Department of Justice details
698 Violence

A man is 2x as likely to be the victim of homicide by a non-famly memeber than a woman (81,9% vs. 41.8%)

United States 2010 Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 10 Department of Justice details
699 Violence

Fathers are significantly more likely to be killed by their children than are mothers

United States 2010 Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 22 Department of Justice details
700 Violence

Brothers are significantly more likely to be killed by a sibling than are sisters

United States 2010 Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 22 Department of Justice details
726 Violence

Young men are more likely to be victims of violence than any other group

United Kingdom 2012 Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, p. 1 Office for National Statistics details
727 Violence

68% of homicide victims are male

United Kingdom 2012 Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, p. 1 Office for National Statistics details
729 Violence

62% of victims of violence are male

United Kingdom 2012 Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, p. 6 Office for National Statistics details
730 Violence

Men over 2x as likely as women to be killed by someone they don’t know (46% vs. 22% of homicides)

United Kingdom 2012 Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, p. 23 Office for National Statistics details
731 Violence

69% of homicide victims are male

United Kingdom 2011 Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, p. 26 Office for National Statistics details
732 Violence

68% of homicide victims are male

United Kingdom 2010 Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, p. 26 Office for National Statistics details
733 Violence

Male children (ages 5-14) are killed disproportionately high when compared to female children

United Kingdom 2012 Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, p. 31 Office for National Statistics details
735 Violence

Men are 37% of lifetime victims of domestic abuse between the ages of 16-59 (~2.9MM of ~7.9MM victims)

United Kingdom 2012 Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, pp. 62, 65 Office for National Statistics details
736 Violence

In the past 12 months, 40% of the victims of IPV were men

United Kingdom 2012 Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, pp. 62, 66 Office for National Statistics details
855 Violence

Female victims of serious violent crime are >2x more likely to receive assistance from a victim assistance agency than are male victims (15% vs. 6%)

United States 2011 Use of Victim Service Agencies by Victims of Serious Violent Crime, 1993-2009, p. 1 Department of Justice details
856 Violence

Among violent crime victims, >2x the percentage of rape or other sexual assault victims (21%) received assistance from a victim service agency, compared to victims of robbery (8%), aggravated assault (9%), and simple assault (7%).

United States 2011 Use of Victim Service Agencies by Victims of Serious Violent Crime, 1993-2009, p. 3 Department of Justice details
857 Violence

Despite a similar percentage of victims of IP and non-IP violence (60% vs 57%) who reported to the police, a greater percentage of victims of IP than non-IP violence (23% vs. 8%) received assistance from a victim service agency

United States 2011 Use of Victim Service Agencies by Victims of Serious Violent Crime, 1993-2009, p. 4 Department of Justice details
858 Violence

Though 43% of serious violent crime victimizations were against women, women accounted for 66% of the victims who received assistance from a victim service agency

United States 2011 Use of Victim Service Agencies by Victims of Serious Violent Crime, 1993-2009, p. 5 Department of Justice details
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