In midyear 2002 a total of 665,475 inmates were held in local jails (Doris J. James, Profile of Jail Inmates, 2002, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Washington, DC, June 2004). Nearly 11% of inmates reported having experienced abuse before age eighteen. About twice as many females (20.3%) than males (9.7%) were abused during childhood. Overall, more than twice as many male inmates (59.7%) than female inmates (25.7%) reported that a parent or guardian abused them. About 16% of male inmates experienced abuse by other relatives, compared with 18.9% among female inmates. (See Table 5.7.)