Rape

HALF OF WOMEN RAPED DURING 1992 WERE YOUNGER THAN 18 YEARS OLD

U.S. Department of Justice

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1994                            202-307-0784

                HALF OF WOMEN RAPED DURING 1992
                 WERE YOUNGER THAN 18 YEARS OLD

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Half of the women who reported they
had been raped during 1992 were juveniles under 18 years old, and 16
percent...

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1997             202/633-3047

     SIXTY PERCENT OF CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS
            ARE ON PAROLE OR PROBATION

        Rapes and Sexual Assaults Decline

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- According to a report
released today by the Justice Department's Bureau
of Justice Statistics (BJS), on any given day in
1994 almost 60 percent of the 234,000 convicted
sex...