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 Physical Fighting by Youth The percentage of students in grades 9-12 who had been in at least one physical fight in the past year decreased from 43 percent in 1991 to 33 percent in 2003, and was 36 percent in 2007... > View Indicator Students Carrying Weapons The percentage of high school students carrying weapons in the past 30 days declined from 26 percent to 17 percent between 1991 and 1999, and has remained stable at between 17 percent and 19 percent through 2007... > View Indicator Adolescents Who Have Ever Been Raped In 2005, more than one out of ten (11 percent) high school females reported having been raped at some point in her life... > View Indicator Dating Violence One out of every 10 high school students was a victim of dating violence in 2007...> View Indicator Child Maltreatment Among maltreated children, the percentage reported as neglected--as opposed to abused--increased from 49 percent in 1990 to 63 percent in 2005, while the percentage reported as sexually abused declined from 17 percent to 9 percent...> View Indicator Infant Homicide The infant homicide rate increased from 4.3 per 100,000 in 1970 to 9.2 per 100,000 in 2000, before falling to 7.8 per 100,000 in 2003 (preliminary estimate). In 2003, 318 infants died due to homicide...> View Indicator Youth Who Feel Unsafe at School The percentage of youth who feared attack at school or on the way to and from school decreased substantially from 12 percent in 1995 to 6 percent in 2005... > View Indicator Violent Crime Victimization In 2005, overall violent crime victimization among adolescents reached an all-time low, declining to less than half the rate of 1996...> View Indicator Teen Homicide, Suicide, and Firearm Death Males are significantly more likely than females to die violently. In 2005, males aged 15 to 19 were four times more likely to commit suicide, six and a half times more likely to be victims of homicide, and nine times more likely to be involved in a firearm related death than were females of the same age... > View Indicator Neighborhood Safety About 3 out of every 10 non-Hispanic black and Hispanic children under age 18 live in neighborhoods that are never or sometimes safe, compared to less than 1 in 10 white children (8 percent), according to parent reports...> View Indicator
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