National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
Update on the NCVS Instrument Redesign: Juvenile Testing Efforts
Trends and Patterns in Firearm Violence, 1993–2018
Subnational Estimates Program
Background
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization. Learn more about the NCVS here.
The NCVS was originally designed to provide national-level estimates of criminal victimization. Since its inception in 1973, BJS has recognized the need for victimization data at the state and/or local levels. The three major reviews of the NCVS program point to the...
National Victimization Statistical SupportProgram (NVSSP): Round 3
Update on the NCVS Instrument Redesign
Criminal Victimization, 2020 – Supplemental Statistical Tables
The Nation’s Two Crime Measures, 2011–2020
Stalking Victimization, 2019
Crime Against Persons with Disabilities, 2009–2019 – Statistical Tables
Criminal Victimization, 2020
Hate Crime Victimization, 2005-2019
Report on Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2020
Identity Theft Supplement (ITS)
Administered to persons age 16 or older who completed an in-person National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) interview, the Identity Theft Supplement (ITS) asks respondents if they had experienced identity theft during the past 12 months. The ITS encompasses several types of identity theft, such as the misuse of an existing account, misuse of personal information to open a new account, and other misuses of personal...
FY 2021 National Census of Victim Service Providers
Estimating Crime Victimization in Large States and MSAs Through Reweighting: Evaluation and Methodology
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/)