National Crime Victimization Survey
A second major source of data about crime and delinquency comes from victimization surveys and studies. The most widely known of victimization surveys is the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Once called the National Crime Survey, the NCVS has been conducted annually since 1972 by the Bureau of the Census for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics.
To gather data for the annual report entitled Crime Victimization in the U.S., the Bureau of the Census conducts interviews with a national sample of approximately 160,000 people in 90,000 households. The major focus in the set of questions asked adults (in this survey that includes anyone in the household over 12 years of age) is whether they have been victims of
To gather data for the annual report entitled Crime Victimization in the U.S., the Bureau of the Census conducts interviews with a national sample of approximately 160,000 people in 90,000 households. The major focus in the set of questions asked adults (in this survey that includes anyone in the household over 12 years of age) is whether they have been victims of