I'm sure that when a woman rolls up to a gas or charging station with a meandering crackhead or weird lurker, she can comfort herself by repeating the mantra "79% of homicide victims are male".
See Table 5: http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf. Men are offenders in 92% of gun homicides, 93% of homicides committed in conjunction with another felony, 95% of drug-related homicides, and 98% of gang-related homicides.
Without any real data, and widely varying estimates of reporting rates, why do you find it difficult to believe?
Gut feeling is not a valid scientific method :)
Yes, murder is definitely more accurately reported, because, well, in most cases, it's always investigated (if you are murdered, generally, the police investigate). Males commit ~90% of murders in the US.
In fact, it shows that males kill females only twice as much as females kill males, which is a lot higher than most people expect females to be.
Males also get killed by strangers (relevant to the original discussion) at a rate >2x higher than females:
Male Female
Stranger 25.5% 11.9%
(Sadly, none of the source data is in that PDF, and honestly, for a mostly side-argument on hacker news, i'm just not willing to go looking very hard :P)
> Here basic profiling would tell me you are male, correct? Did you know people like you commit 99% of murder and violent crime?
In case anyone was curious, the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics believes that men are responsible for ~90% of murders and ~80% of violent crime (in the US).
Worldwide, men are victimized at much higher rates, especially when the perpetrator is a stranger. But men also commit the vast majority of violent crimes. Most of these crimes end up being men hurting other men. Of particular interest is homicide statistics...
>A 2013 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that males accounted for about 96 percent of all homicide perpetrators worldwide.
The wiki speculates that this could be due to biological differences, such as men being much more willing to engage in risky behavior.
You need to compare the rates of success, not the absolute numbers. I bet there are more homicide attempts on men than there are homicide attempts on women.
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