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Homicide Trends in the U.S.
Homicide trends in the United States
- by James Alan Fox, The Lipman Family Professor
of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University
and
Marianne W. Zawitz, BJS Statistician
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This site contains a series of charts that describe homicide patterns and trends in the United States since 1976. Homicide is of interest not only because of its severity but also because it is a fairly reliable barometer of all violent crime. At a national level, no other crime is measured as accurately and precisely. The data on this site may differ slightly from previously published figures because of updates to the data files after publication and the imputation methods used.
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version| Production assistance for this website was provided by Timothy Kearley and Priscilla Middleton of BJS. Erica Smith, BJS statistician, provided the statistical review. |