Difference between revisions of "Crime, Courts, and Corrections Guide:Victimization"

Information on crime victims at a national level is available through the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Both agencies collaborate to collect data from a sample of U.S. residents in the National Crime Victimization Survey.<ref>http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245</ref> The survey collects data on the age, sex, race and Hispanic origin, marital status, education level, and income of people in the sample, and asks whether they have been a recent victim of crime. For each incident, the Victimization Survey also includes information about the offender (age, race and Hispanic origin, sex, and victim-offender relationship), details about the crime (including time and place of occurrence, use of weapons, nature of injury, and economic consequences), whether the crime was ever reported to police (or reasons for not reporting), and the experiences of the victim with the criminal justice system.

Information on crime victims at a national level is available through the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Both agencies collaborate to collect data from a sample of U.S. residents in the National Crime Victimization Survey.<ref>http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245</ref> The survey collects data on the age, sex, race and Hispanic origin, marital status, education level, and income of people in the sample, and asks whether they have been a recent victim of crime. For each incident, the Victimization Survey also includes information about the offender (age, race and Hispanic origin, sex, and victim-offender relationship), details about the crime (including time and place of occurrence, use of weapons, nature of injury, and economic consequences), whether the crime was ever reported to police (or reasons for not reporting), and the experiences of the victim with the criminal justice system.