Translation - Danish-English - Vold

Recently an investigation has shown that it's only one and a half percent of the population that risk being assaulted during a period of a year. That is half as many as in an earlier investigation from the 80's.
The risk of being a victim of violence from someone you don't know is quite small. When it finally happens it often falls upon young people. For the older people, who normally are more worried than the young ones, the risk is minimal but the experts mean that the myth about increasing violence is harmful to older people's quality of life.