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