Young juveniles are most likely to be sexually assaulted by persons under age 18 - older juveniles by adults. Resources for Statistics of Juvenile Justice Juveniles are more likely to be the victim of a violent crime in the hour after the end of the school day than at any other hour of the day. In one-third of all sexual assaults reported to law enforcement agencies, the victim was under age 12. One in four of these young victims was male. The Bulletin finds that juveniles make up 12 percent of all crime victims known to police, including 71 percent of all sex crime victims and 38 percent of all kidnaping victims.
Simple assault is the most commonly reported crime against juveniles.
In the US, one of the leading causes of death for juveniles is homicide. In 1997, the National Center for Health Statistics listed homicide as the fourth leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 4, third for youth ages 5 to 14, and second for persons ages 15 to 24. You must obtain a user name and password to access the National Data Analysis System.