Graphic by me created in Excel.

Data is over a 5 year period (2019-2023) from the FBI: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend

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29 comments

  3. What is the value of that tiny sliver of justifiable homicide on females?

    The link will not cooperate with my browser.

  4. The numbers make sense. I’d be curious as to true numbers for Rape, as to how balanced it would be in a perfecting reporting world – since we know how well male rape victims are listened to. Maybe closer to the incest ratio?

    I’d also be curious to see how Extortion & blackmail line up with the general workforce data. Is that something correlated to positions of power?

  5. Do you have this data for perpetrators as well? Would be interesting to see how that looks vs. the victim data.

  6. How can there be a male/female difference for incest? Lesbian incest?

    (Realistically, I’m assuming it’s a rape thing, but wouldn’t that just be under “rape” then?)

  7. What is Incest as a crime? Or more precisely, how is a victim determined? Incest as i understand is two family members engaging in intercourse. If it was in any way unwilling it would be a form of rape and therefore in that statistic. So how is a victim defined in that one?

    I am legitimately curious, i know nothing of the US law surrounding this.

  9. The numbers for rape and incest are the least surprising

  11. I think it’d tell a couple of stories if the list was sorted by count of crimes vs. alphabetized

  12. “Unknown” should go in the middle, not be right aligned.

  13. Its important to note this data is for *reported* cases. In the case of rape for example, men are far more likely to not report it, eg “For instance, some reports indicate that in the military, 43% of female victims reported, while only 10% of male victims reported.”

    Also, men are more likely to have much more strict definitions of what entails rape — “Some studies suggest that when “nonconsensual sex” is broadly defined, the prevalence among men and women over a 12-month period can be similar.”

  14. note: one would only show up on this statistic if the crime was reported to the police in the first place

  15. Great job,thank you! Is there also data on the perpetrators? That would be an interesting contrast.

  17. Most are not surprising.
    Beside one : robbery being done twice more on men than women. I didn’t expect that

  19. “Unknown” should be in the middle, so that the reader can easily see the male and female percentages. The unknown percentage is least interesting.

    They crimes should be ordered. I think gender disparity would be the best order, but even alphabetical is better than nothing.

    The percentages should be marked with vertical grid lines.

  20. Unknown should have been centered so that you can compare M and F from the left and right edge easily.

  21. How is a victim of “justifiable homicide” a victim of a crime?

  22. Would have made it a bit easier to read if you sort the data from largest ratio of men to smallest ratio of men? 

  23. Very interesting, and nice. Suggest putting unknown in middle.

  27. Why is no one talking about the motor vehicle theft numbers?

    I find it fascinating that there is such a big split on something that would superficially look like a 50:50. Dropping the very large number of unknowns, it’s still a 60:40 split. This doesn’t seem like something that could be accounted for by car ownership alone, or could it?

  29. Tough to be beautiful when you use colors that aren’t colorblind friendly

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