Surveying victims : options for conducting the National Crime Victimization Survey / / 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 of the National Academies ; Robert M. Groves and Daniel L. Cork, editors

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Victims of crimes surveys; Crime - Public opinion; Criminal justice, Administration of - Public opinion
• Altri autori: GrovesRobert M CorkDaniel L
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Title -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Surveying victims
• ISBN: 9786611726768; 9780309177894; 0309177898; 9781281726766; 1281726761; 9780309115995; 030911599X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910961722303321
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