Pertaining to data collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics: A classification of a crime victim’s relationship to the offender. An offender who is either related to, well known to, or casually acquainted with the victim is a non-stranger. For crimes with more than one offender, if any of the offenders are non-strangers, then the group of offenders as a whole is classified as non-stranger. This category only applies to crimes that involve contact between the victim and the offender; the distinction is not made for crimes of theft because victims of this offense rarely see the offenders. (https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tda)
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