National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

BJS encourages comments for 60 days until February 2, 2018, on the extension of a currently approved data collection: National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Your comments to BJS's requests 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 will have practical utility
• the accuracy of...

The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), in collaboration with BJS, released the 2016 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) dataset. The NCVS was designed to—

• develop detailed information about the victims and outcomes of crime
• estimate the number and types of crimes not reported to police
• provide uniform measures of selected types of crime.

ADOLESCENTS ACTING ALONE COMMITTED MORE NONFATAL VIOLENT VICTIMIZATIONS THAN THOSE ACTING WITH OTHERS BETWEEN 2004 AND 2013

WASHINGTON – For the 10-year period 2004–13, adolescents who acted alone committed 32 nonfatal violent victimizations...