DOWNLOAD The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) are the two largest and most comprehensive resources for information relating to crime and victimization in the United States....
DOWNLOAD Criminal victimization trends provide useful insights by positioning annual data within a broader context. To estimate these trends, researchers rely on two national sources of crime data: the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program...
DOWNLOAD Elder victimization is an important subset of crime. While people age 65 and older experience the same crimes as the rest of the population, they are at increased risk for certain types of victimization, including financial victimization, neglect, and...
DOWNLOAD A hate crime is a criminal offense that is motivated by personal prejudice and directed at others because of their perceived race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religion, or disability. One hate crime offense may include multiple...
DOWNLOAD Human trafficking involves the use of force, coercion, or fraud to induce an individual into performing a commercial sexact (sex trafficking), or to subject them to involuntary servitude, debt bondage, or slavery (labor trafficking). Languagebarriers, lack of...
DOWNLOAD Intimate partner violence (IPV), often called domestic violence, is generally described as abuse within the context of an intimate partner relationship, where one partner asserts power and control over the other. While legal definitions vary by state, IPV can...
DOWNLOAD Mass casualty shootings are rare compared to other forms of homicide; however, due to extensive media and policy attention, as well as the number of people affected by each event, they are an important subset of crime.* Measuring mass casualty shootings is...
DOWNLOAD Schools and post-secondary campuses are relatively safe places. However, victimization does occur, and the risks vary bycontext. Given the amount of time that young people spend at school, victimizations occurring there are an importantsubset of crime....
DOWNLOAD Sexual violence encompasses a variety of criminal and noncriminal acts—from sexual threats to unwanted contact to rape. Sexual violence is pervasive and often traumatizing to its victims. For a number of reasons, however, including the stigma and insensitive...
DOWNLOAD Stalking is generally defined as a pattern of behavior that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear. Although a crime throughout the United States (including Territories and many Tribal Codes) and an offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice,...
DOWNLOAD While national-level crime statistics provide important information regarding overall crime trends, they cannot yet demonstrate differences in crime and victimization at the sub-national level. For instance, reporting local data through the FBI’s Uniform...
DOWNLOAD Workplace violence is defined as violence or the threat of violence directed at someone on duty or at work. Followinga series of high-profile events, workplace violence has been recognized as an organizational, community, and societalissue. While workplace...
DOWNLOAD Child, youth, and teen victimization is an important subset of crime. While children and youth are often victims of the same crimes as adults (e.g., theft, assault), they are also vulnerable to many other crimes including neglect, medical neglect, and...
