Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey, 2007-2022 & Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2023)

This graph originally appeared in Why did prison and jail populations grow in 2022 — and what comes next?.

We looked at two indicators of crime — self-reported victimization and officially-reported crime — and observed the same patterns in both.