Surveying Victims - Options for Conducting the National Crime Victimization Survey (Paperback, New)

It is easy to underestimate how little was known about crimes and victims before the findings of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) became common wisdom. In the late 1960s, knowledge of crimes and their victims came largely from reports filed by local police agencies as part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system, as well as from studies of the files held by individual police departments. Criminologists understood that there existed a "dark figure" of crime consisting of events not reported to the police. However, over the course of the last decade, the effectiveness of the NCVS has been undermined by the demands of conducting an increasingly expensive survey in an effectively flat-line budgetary environment. Surveying Victims: Options for Conducting the National Crime Victimization Survey, reviews the programs of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS.) Specifically, it explores alternative options for conducting the NCVS, which is the largest BJS program. This book describes various design possibilities and their implications relative to three basic goals; flexibility, in terms of both content and analysis; utility for gathering information on crimes that are not well reported to police; and small-domain estimation, including providing information on states or localities. This book finds that, as currently configured and funded, the NCVS is not achieving and cannot achieve BJS's mandated goal to "collect and analyze data that will serve as a continuous indication of the incidence and attributes of crime." Accordingly, Surveying Victims recommends that BJS be afforded the budgetary resources necessary to generate accurate measure of victimization.

General

Imprint:	National Academies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Panel to Review the Programs of the Bureau of Justice Statistics • Committee on National Statistics • Committee on Law and Justice • Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education • National Research Council
Editors:	Robert M. Groves • Daniel L. Cork
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	218
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-309-11598-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General
LSN:	0-309-11598-1
Barcode:	9780309115988

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