
Trends in Assault: What You Need to Know
This fact sheet spotlights trends in aggravated assault, rape and sexual assault, and intimate partner violence. It explores variables ranging from weapon type to age of arrest and clearance rates.

This fact sheet spotlights trends in aggravated assault, rape and sexual assault, and intimate partner violence. It explores variables ranging from weapon type to age of arrest and clearance rates.

Examining changes in larceny rates from 1960 forward, this fact sheet also explores average arrest age, clearance rates, and the various types of larceny, including shoplifting.

With data from as far back as 1960, this fact sheet takes a close look at trends in robbery over time, providing details related to arrest age and sex, victim age and sex, clearance rates, and type of weapon used.

Homicide and most other violent crime declined in American cities in 2023, but levels remain above those seen before the onset of the COVID pandemic and the widespread social justice protests of 2020.

This package of data and analysis examines long-term homicide trends in the U.S. It also explores possible explanations for the rise in murder seen in mid-2020 and, in most cities, its subsequent decline.

“Smash and grab” episodes and other shoplifting incidents have been widely covered in the news, suggesting a surge in such crimes. But an analysis of shoplifting data from 24 U.S. cities presents a more complicated story.