Citation

Rennison CM, Planty M. Violence Vict. 2006; 21(1): 23-47.

Affiliation

Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO 63121-4499, USA. Rennisonc@umsl.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Springer Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16494131

Abstract

Descriptions of the 1990s crime drop point to the importance of declines in firearm violence among young, Black, urban males. This extant research is valuable but incomplete in terms of the crimes considered and the degree of disaggregation considered. This study complements current work on fatal violence by providing a comprehensive description of nonfatal violence trends using highly disaggregated data from the National Crime Victimization Survey. Through disaggregation we describe how the risk for nonlethal serious violence differs among a variety of victim populations, how these risks varied over time, and the contribution made by each group to the overall decline in crime. We also examine how firearm violence, and violence by a variety of victim/offender categories contributed to the aggregate drop in nonfatal serious violence.