homicide_by

Men do most of the killing in our society, by a factor of almost 10:1 (in 1999)

Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/

Most victims and perpetrators in homicides are male

Male offender/male victim	65.1%
Male offender/female victim	22.4%
Female offender/male victim	10.1%
Female offender/female victim	2.4%

Viewed another way:

	Killer:
Victim:	Male	female	Total:
male	65.1%	10.1%	75.1%
female	22.4%	2.4%	24.6%
Total:	87.5%	12.5%

75.1% of murder victims are male; 24.6% are female;
87.5% of murderers are male; 12.5% are female;
a woman is roughly 10 times more likely to be killed by a man than by a woman;
a man is 6.5 x as likely to be killed by another man than by a woman;
a man is over twice as likely to kill a woman than a woman is to kill a man (22.4% v. 10.1%)

Victimization rates for males have fluctuated while those for females have declined

Males were 3.2 times more likely than females to be murdered in 1999
In 1999, rates for males and females reached their lowest point in more than two decades

Homicide Offending Rates per 100,000 Population by Gender
Year:	Male:	Female:
1980	20.6	3.1
1990	19.6	2.2
1995	17.2	1.6
1999	11.7	1.3

Men are also more likely to be homicide victims:

	Homicide Victimization Rates per 100,000 Population by Gender
	Male	Female
1980	16.2	4.5
1990	15.1	4
1995	12.9	3.7
1996	11.7	3.3
1997	10.7	3
1998	9.6	3
1999	8.8	2.7