Data used for the FBI's annual report on crime in the United States said that murder, assault and robbery were down in 2018—but that there was an increase in rape.
noted that the FBI changed its definition of rape from forcible"carnal knowledge of a female" to one centered more on consent rather than coercion in 2013. Every year since then, the number of reported instances of rape as recorded in the annual report has decreased.
Kristen Houser, a spokesperson for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, said that the increased number of reports might be related to more and more survivors of sexual assault recognizing that what has been done to them is a crime. "We may well have more ability to recognize experiences for the crimes that they are and be able to name them, which I don't think has been true historically," Houser, speaking to, said."And that's a result of more people talking about it, reporting on it, reading it, etc."
Despite the higher number of reported rapes, the data reporting an overall drop in violent and property crime over the past decades.stated that the rate of violent crime dropped 49 percent between 1993 and 2017, according to previous FBI reports. The report released today said the rate of robbery fell by 12 percent, murder decreased by 6.2 percent and aggravated assault dropped by 0.4 percent.
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