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Home • Crime in the U.S. • 2018 • Crime in the U.S. 2018 • Tables • Expanded Homicide Data Table 12

Expanded Homicide Data Table 12

Murder Circumstances, 2014–2018
Circumstances 20141 20151 20161 20171 2018
Total 12,278 13,780 15,318 15,195 14,123
Felony type total: 1,730 1,924 2,130 2,260 2,108
Rape 25 14 21 19 13
Robbery 563 596 691 691 548
Burglary 77 85 81 86 75
Larceny-theft 23 17 13 22 23
Motor vehicle theft 24 34 57 33 59
Arson 20 19 31 76 64
Prostitution and commercialized vice 19 7 15 15 13
Other sex offenses 3 15 4 8 5
Narcotic drug laws 363 449 472 546 560
Gambling 11 5 11 10 6
Other-not specified 602 683 734 754 742
Suspected felony type 83 103 97 149 208
Other than felony type total: 5,475 5,799 6,376 6,681 6,299
Domestic violence 83 103 111 111 131
Child killed by babysitter 38 42 37 32 29
Brawl due to influence of alcohol 73 116 97 85 65
Brawl due to influence of narcotics 68 72 130 65 59
Argument over money or property 146 180 196 202 199
Other arguments 2,741 2,916 3,114 3,191 3,196
Gangland killings 137 181 478 373 306
Juvenile gang killings 555 576 411 380 308
Institutional killings 18 24 17 27 23
Sniper attack 3 5 4 5 0
Other-not specified 1,613 1,584 1,781 2,210 1,983
Unknown 4,990 5,954 6,715 6,105 5,508
  • 1 The rape figures in this table are an aggregate total of the data submitted using both the revised and legacy Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) definitions.
  • NOTE: The UCR Technical Refresh enables updating of prior years' crime data; therefore, data presented in this table may not match previously published data.