Violent crime levels did not rise last year in the United States, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which is administered by the Justice Department. The survey found last year’s violent crime rate was 18.6 victimizations per 1,000 people age 12 or older, lower than the 79.8 per 1,000 rate of the modern-day high point of crime in the nation in 1993.
NCVS includes rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault in its violent crime category, but it does not include homicides.