Only for homicide (murder) has the crime rate gone up from 1.7 per 100,000 in 2001 to level off at 2.0 per 100,000 from 2004 to 2005.
In America, the homicide rate is 5.5 per 100,000 for 2005 with 3/4 of victims being men and almost 90% of perpetrators also men. This works out to 9 per 100,000 male victims, 2.3 per 100,000 female victims, 12 per 100,000 male perpetrators and 2 per 100,000 female perpetrators.
So unless it happens to be the rare case of a man being murdered by a woman or even rarer, a woman by a woman, most men murder mostly other men. One out of four victims is female.
Regarding rape & sexual assault, it went from 160 per 100,000 in 1995, 120 per 100,000 in 2000, 80 per 100,000 in 2005, to 100 per 100,000 in 2007 in the US according to US Census Bureau records:
If 1 in 10 incidents of sexual assault are not reported, the rates dropped from 1600 to 1000 per 100,000 in the US from 1995 to 2007.
Over the same period, Canada's sexual assault rates were lower: 100 per 100,000 in 1995, 80 per 100,000 in 2000, 75 per 100,000 in 2005 and 70 in 2007.
If in Canada, 1 in 10 incidents of sexual assault are not reported, then the rates dropped from 1000 to 700 per 100,000 in Canada from 1995 to 2007.
Reference:
Crimes and Offenses: http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/ind01/l2_2693-eng.htm
Homicide Trends: 1980 to 2005: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2010/tables/10s0301.pdf
Criminal Victimization and Victimization Rates: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2010/tables/10s0304.pdf
Chart 1, Sexual Assault in Canada 2004 and 2007: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85f0033m/85f0033m2008019-eng.pdf
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