LEADER 04956nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910961722303321 005 20251117054458.0 010 $a9786611726768 010 $a9780309177894 010 $a0309177898 010 $a9781281726766 010 $a1281726761 010 $a9780309115995 010 $a030911599X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000752909 035 $a(OCoLC)320326469 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10235157 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000284612 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11228472 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284612 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10261560 035 $a(PQKB)10506752 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3378363 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3378363 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10235157 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172676 035 $a(OCoLC)923278886 035 $a(Perlego)4734908 035 $a(BIP)17176899 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000752909 100 $a20081103d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSurveying victims $eoptions for conducting the National Crime Victimization Survey /$fPanel 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 of the National Academies ; Robert M. Groves and Daniel L. Cork, editors 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cNational Academies Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (218 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780309115988 311 08$a0309115981 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aTitle -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Goals of the National Crime Victimization Survey -- 3 Current Demands and Constraints on the National Crime Victimization Survey -- 4 Matching Design Features to Desired Goals -- 5 Decision-Making Process for a New Victimization Measurement System -- References -- A Findings and Recommendations -- B Principal Findings and Recommendations of the National Research Council (1976b) Study -- C Procedures and Operations of the National Crime Victimization Survey -- D The Uniform Crime Reporting Program -- E Other Victimization Surveys: International and U.S. State and Local Experience -- F Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff. 330 $aIt 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. 606 $aVictims of crimes surveys 606 $aCrime$xPublic opinion 606 $aCriminal justice, Administration of$xPublic opinion 615 0$aVictims of crimes surveys. 615 0$aCrime$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aCriminal justice, Administration of$xPublic opinion. 701 $aGroves$b Robert M$0102939 701 $aCork$b Daniel L$01805558 712 02$aNational Research Council (U.S.).$bPanel to Review the Programs of the Bureau of Justice Statistics. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961722303321 996 $aSurveying victims$94360785 997 $aUNINA