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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Res Crime Delinq. 2022 Oct 11;61(2):224–267. doi: 10.1177/00224278221129886
Alleged Offenders Victims

Period Total # Cases % Unknown for Race % Unknown for Age Total # Cases % Unknown for Race % Unknown for Age
1975 82,576 21.80% 24.30% 76,717 0.25% 1.45%
1980 111,260 26.65% 28.60% 101,289 1.09% 1.99%
1985 102,957 25.93% 28.90% 94,623 0.75% 2.21%
1990 128,557 28.94% 33.50% 113,736 0.87% 1.81%
1995 94,198 28.27% 33.50% 83,239 1.08% 2.09%
2000 82,758 28.25% 33.90% 73,181 1.33% 2.21%
2005 88,344 27.23% 31.60% 76,181 1.38% 1.92%
2010 78,730 26.56% 30.20% 67,228 1.20% 1.21%
2015 70,690 29.40% 31.80% 61,323 1.55% 1.17%
Total 840,070 27.06% 30.80% 747,517 1.03% 1.82%

Notes: There are 840,070 alleged offenders in the dataset, 258,550 cases (31%) have no age information, and 227,307 cases (27%) have no race information. Most of these missing cases (222,504) are overlapping and have no information for both race and age. There are 747,517 victims, 13,627 (1.8%) have no age information and 7,667 (1%) have no race information, 2,153 cases have no information for both.