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National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

Financial fraud

In the National Crime Victimization Survey's Supplemental Fraud Survey, financial fraud is defined as acts that “intentionally and knowingly deceive the victim by misrepresenting, concealing, or omitting facts about promised goods, services, or other benefits and consequences that are nonexistent, unnecessary, never intended to be provided, or deliberately distorted for the purpose of monetary gain.” (See Stanford Center on Longevity. (2015). Framework for a taxonomy of fraud. https://longevity.stanford.edu/framework-for-a-taxonomy-of-fraud/)

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Public Comments Requested on the Proposed Reinstatement and Update of the Identity Theft Supplement (2020/2022) to the National Crime Victimization Survey

BJS encourages comments for 60 days until May 20, 2019, on the reinstatement and update of a previously approved data collection: Identity Theft Supplement (2020/2022) to the National Crime Victimization Survey. Your comments to BJS's request to the Office of Management and Budget, published in the Federal Register, should address points such as—

  • whether the proposed data collection is necessary, including whether the information...

Public Comments Requested on a Proposed Data Collection Update and Two New Data Collections

BJS encourages comments for 30 days until March 25, 2019, on the proposed reinstatement and update of the 2018 Census of Medical Examiner and Coroner Offices (CMEC). BJS also encourages comments for 60 days until April 22, 2019, on two proposed new data collections, the Survey of Law Enforcement Personnel in Schools (SLEPS) and Methodological Research to Support the National Crime Victimization Survey Redesign...