The Nation : Crime Hit 1 in 4 U.S. Households in ’88

One of every four U.S. households was the target of a violent crime or theft in 1988, the same proportion as the previous three years, the Justice Department said. This proportion remained at the lowest level since the Bureau of Justice Statistics began calculating the household rate in 1975. That year, almost one in three households was the target of a violent crime. Households in the Northeast were the least vulnerable to crime, with 19% hit, while those in the West suffered the most with 30.3%. Overall, members of about 141,000 households were raped, 872,000 were robbed and 3.7 million were assaulted, and the bureau found a total of 7.19 million households, or 1 in 13, were targeted by crimes of high concern, including rape, robbery, assault by a stranger or a burglar.