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Drug abuse violations are defined as State or local offenses relating to the unlawful possession, sale, use, growing,
manufacturing, and making of narcotic drugs including opium or cocaine and their derivatives, marijuana, synthetic narcotics,
and dangerous nonnarcotic drugs such as barbiturates.
Juveniles are defined as persons under age 18 years. Adults are defined as persons age 18 and older.
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Note: Includes both attempted and completed rapes.
Rape - Forced sexual intercourse including both psychological coercion as well as
physical force. . Includes attempted rapes,
male as well as female victims, and both heterosexual and homosexual rape. Attempted
rape includes verbal threats of rape.
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Robbery - Completed or attempted theft, directly from a person, of property or cash by force or threat of force, with or without a
weapon, and with or without injury.
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Note: Property crimes include burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft.
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Note: Crimes include the offenses of murder, robbery, and aggravated assault.
In 2006, about 68% of all murders, 42% of all robberies, and 22% of all aggravated assaults that were reported to the
police were committed with a firearm.
According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics, in 2001 about 39% of the deaths that resulted from
firearm injuries were homicides, 57% were suicides, 3% were unintentional, and 1% were of undetermined intent.
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