Relationship of Victims to Offenders by Offense Category

by Offense Category, 2014

Offense Category	Total Victims¹	Relationship of Victims to Offenders
Offense Category	Total Victims¹	Family Member²	Family Member and Other³	Known to Victim and Other⁴	Stranger	All Other⁵
Total	1,273,602	277,657	38,812	671,480	131,101	154,552
Crimes Against Persons	1,209,245	277,088	38,642	659,049	103,731	130,735
Assault Offenses	1,119,109	254,424	37,758	610,614	96,679	119,634
Homicide Offenses	3,427	602	46	1,317	391	1,071
Human Trafficking Offenses	57	0	0	28	24	5
Kidnapping/Abduction	14,894	3,226	179	7,969	1,631	1,889
Sex Offenses	66,567	17,770	607	35,497	4,911	7,782
Sex Offenses, Nonforcible	5,191	1,066	52	3,624	95	354
Crimes Against Property	64,357	569	170	12,431	27,370	23,817
Robbery	64,357	569	170	12,431	27,370	23,817

¹The relationship of a victim to an offender is reported only for the victim types of Individual and Law Enforcement Officer that are connected to Crimes Against Persons or Robbery offenses. Relationship data are not collected for victims of offenses reported with an Unknown Offender or of other Crimes Against Property or Crimes Against Society offenses.
²Victims were related to all offenders, whether one or more, of the reported offense.
³Victims were related to at least one of the multiple offenders of the reported offense.
⁴Victims knew, but were not related to, one or more of the multiple offenders of the reported offense.
⁵Victims were mutual combatants (victim was offender) or had an unknown relationship with a single offender. In the case of multiple offenders, victims' relationships were combinations of strangers, mutual combatants, and/or unknown offenders.