Violent crime includes murder, rape and sexual assault, robbery, and assault.
In general, the younger the person, the more likely they were to experience a violent crime. Trends in violent victimization by age, 1973-99. Persons age 16-19 were raped or sexually assaulted at 35 times that of persons age 50 to 64. Persons age 16 to 19 were twice as likely to be robbed than persons age 25 to 34 and twelve times as likely as persons age 65 or older. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports show that most homicide victims were relatively young.