BJS' National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the Nation's second largest ongoing household survey. Survey data tell us how many rapes, sexual assaults, robberies, assaults, thefts, household burglaries, and motor vehicle thefts U.S. residents age 12 or older and their households experience each year.
BJS Crime and Victims Publications
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Criminal Victimization 1993: National Crime Victimization Survey, 5/31/95. Summarizes 1993 findings from the redesigned NCVS and presents the first tabulations of 1992 data based on the redesigned survey, an ongoing survey of households, each year interviewing about 100,000 persons in 50,000 households. NCJ 151658
Criminal Victimization in the United States: 1973-92 Trends, 8/94. Presents the victimization rates for selected major crimes, based on victims' demographic characteristics and reporting of the crimes. NCJ147006
Criminal Victimization in the United States 1992, 3/94. Gives detailed, final 1992 National Crime Victimization Survey findings on rape, robbery, assault, personal and household larceny, household burglary, and motor vehicle theft. NCJ 145125
Criminal Victimization 1992: National Crime Victimization Survey. 11/93. Summarizes 1992 findings from the NCVS and presents change estimates from 1991. NCJ 144776
The Costs of Crime to Victims, 2/94. Provides information on both the overall and the average cost of crime to victims. NCJ 145865
Highlights from 20 years of Surveying Crime Victims: The National Crime Victimization Survey, 1973-92, 11/93. Reports 20 years of the most interesting and important findings from the NCVS. NCJ 144525
Highlights from 20 years of Surveying Crime Victims: The National Victimization Survey, 1973-92 -- Color Slides . Includes 39 slides of figures from the Highlights report, 5 bonus slides of homicide graphs from Vital Statistics of the United States, paper copies of the figures for making overheads, the data tables on which the graphics are based, the Highlights report, and a list of slides keyed to report page numbers, all in a three-ring binder. NCJ 148140
Crime and the Nation's Households, 1992 . 9/93. Presents the percentages of households touched by rape, robbery, assault, burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft, as well as the victims' race, ethnicity, income, region, and place of residence. NCJ143288
Violence between Intimates, 11/94. Examines murders, rapes, robberies, and assaults committed by spouses, ex-spouses, boyfriends, or girfriends using data from a variety of sources. NCJ 149259
Child Rape Victims, 1992, 6/22/94. Provides information on the ages of female rape victims in the 15 States that compile such detailed data. NCJ 147001
Elderly Crime Victims, 3/94. Summarizes levels and rates of violent and non-violent crimes against persons 65 or older using data from the National Crime Victimization Survey. NCJ 147186
Crime and Neighborhoods , 7/19/94. Compares victimization levels and perceptions of neighborhood crime for the Nation's households using data from a variety of sources. NCJ 147005
Guns and Crime: Handgun Victimization, Firearm Self-Defense, and Firearm Theft, 5/15/94. Provides estimates of the extent of handgun crime in the United States through 1992, as well as estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey of thefts of firearms and the extent of firearm use for self-defense. NCJ 147003
Violent Crime, 4/94. Summarizes 1973-92 trends in rape, robbery, and assault from the National Crime Victimization Survey; homicide data from Vital Statistics of the United States, National Center for Health Statistics; and 1992 murder data from the FBI Uniform Crime Reports. NCJ 147486
Carjacking, 3/15/94. Presents the first National Crime Victimization Survey estimates of the extent and characteristics of the recently identified crime of carjacking. NCJ 147002
School Crime 1991, 9/91. Analyzes the experiences of U.S. students in grades 6-12 regarding crime victimization at school, the availability of illicit substances, gang presence, fear of crime, and school security measures. NCJ 131645
National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Redesign: Fact Sheet 10/94. Summarizes the redesign of the National Crime Victimization Survey. NCJ 151170
National Crime Victimization Survey Redesign: Technical Background, 10/30/94. Explains changes in the questionnaire and survey procedures and shows the impact on findings of the redesign. NCJ 151172
National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Redesign: Questions & Answers, 10/30/94. Provides answers to frequently asked questions about the redesign. NCJ 151171
The Nation's Two Crime Measures, 11/95 Describes the purposes and advantages of the Uniform Crime Reports of the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Survey of the Bureau of Justice Statistics. NCJ-122795
National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the Nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization. Each year, data are obtained from a nationally representative sample of roughly 49,000 households comprising more than 100,000 persons on the frequency, characteristics and consequences of criminal victimization in the United States. The survey fully reports the likelihood of victimization by rape, sexual assault, robbery, assault, theft, household burglary, and motor vehicle theft for the population as a whole as well as for segments of the population such as women, the elderly, members of various racial groups, city dwellers, or other groups. The NCVS provides the largest national forum for victims to describe the impact of crime and characteristics of violent offenders.
Emergency Room Statistics on Intentional Violence collects data on intentional injuries,
such as domestic violence, rape, and child abuse, from a national sample of hospital emergency
rooms. Through the Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury
Surveillance System information is obtained on characteristics of the victim and perpetrator,
victim-perpetrator relationship, alcohol/drug involvement in the incident, and description of
circumstances of injury.
Ongoing from 1973; Redesign 1992.
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