Forgery and Fraud-Related Offenses in Six States, 1983-88
Date Published
January 1992
Publication Type
Publication
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ABOUT 2.1 MILLION VIOLENT FEMALE OFFENDERS ANNUALLY
MOST COMMIT SIMPLE ASSAULTS AGAINST OTHER FEMALES
WASHINGTON, D.C. There are nearly 2.1 million
violent female offenders (or about 14 percent of all
violent offenders) annually in the U.S., the Justice
Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced
today. Three out of four female violent...