Victimization Statistical Surveys

(noun)

The survey results are used for the purposes of building a crime index.

Related Terms

Examples of Victimization Statistical Surveys in the following topics:

  • Crime Statistics

    • The two major methods for collecting crime data are law enforcement reports and victimization statistical surveys.
    • The U.S. has two major data collection programs: the Uniform Crime Reports from the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
    • The National Crime Victimization Survey has its use, but it also limited in its scope.
    • One way in which victimization surveys are useful is that they show some types of crime are well reported to law enforcement officials, while other types of crime are under reported.
    • The U.S. has two major data collection programs: the Uniform Crime Reports from the FBI, and the National Crime Victimization Survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

  • Violence in Schools

    • In 2007, a nationwide survey conducted by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that, during the 30 days before they took the survey, 5.9% of students had carried a weapon to school and 5.5% of students had skipped school because they did not feel safe.
    • In 2007, a nationwide survey conducted by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention found that, during the 30 days before they took the survey, 5.9% of students had carried a weapon to school, and 5.5% of students had skipped school because they did not feel safe.
    • In the 12 months before they took the survey, 12.4% of students had been in a physical fight on school property at least once.
    • Often, victims are targeted based on their appearance, their gender, or their sexual orientation.
    • Verbal bullying is any slanderous statements or accusations that cause the victim undue emotional distress.

  • Violent Crime

    • A violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim.
    • A violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim.
    • The comparison of violent crime statistics between countries is usually problematic due to the way different countries classify crime.
    • Often this is not possible because crime statistics aggregate equivalent offences in such different ways that make it difficult or impossible to obtain a valid comparison.
    • The United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) counts five categories of crime as violent crimes: murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault.

  • Spousal Abuse

    • According to a report by the United States Department of Justice, a survey of 16,000 Americans showed 22.1 percent of women and 7.4 percent of men reported being physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, or date in their lifetime.
    • Debate revolves around the rates at which each gender is subjected to domestic violence and whether abused men should be provided the same resources and shelters that exist for female victims.
    • Some studies suggest that men are less likely to report being victims of domestic violence due to social stigmas.
    • Determining how many instances of domestic violence actually involve male victims is difficult.
    • Male domestic violence victims may be reluctant to get help for a number of reasons.

  • Types of Crime

    • A violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim.
    • The United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) counts five categories of crime as violent crimes: murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault.
    • According to BJS figures, the rate of violent crime victimization in the United States declined by more than two thirds between the years 1994 and 2009.
    • Property crime only involves the taking of money or property, and does not involve force or threat of force against a victim.
    • Hate crimes occur when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a certain social group, usually defined by racial group, religion, sexual orientation, disability, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, sex, or gender identity.

  • Defining the Sample and Collecting Data

    • For example, a researcher concerned with drawing a statistical generalization across an entire population may administer a survey questionnaire to a representative sample population.
    • While quantitative research requires at least 30 subjects to be considered statistically significant, qualitative research generally takes a more in-depth approach to fewer subjects.
    • In statistics and survey methodology, sampling is concerned with the selection of a subset of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population .
    • Similarly, sociologists must collect a sample of social information, often by surveying or interviewing a group of people.

  • Property Crime

    • Property crime only involves the taking of money or property, and does not involve force or threat of force against a victim.
    • Property crime only involves the taking of money or property, and does not involve force or threat of force against a victim.
    • Statistics for violent crimes are accessible and available to the public.

  • A note on statistics and social network data

    • Where statistics really become "statistical" is on the inferential side.
    • Inferential statistics can be, and are, applied to the analysis of network data.
    • But, there are some quite important differences between the flavors of inferential statistics used with network data, and those that are most commonly taught in basic courses in statistical analysis in sociology.
    • The approach of most network analysts interested in statistical inference for testing hypotheses about network properties is to work out the probability distributions for statistics directly.
    • Social network data tend to differ from more "conventional" survey data in some key ways: network data are often not probability samples, and the observations of individual nodes are not independent.

  • Sexism

    • A good example of sexism against women is a question that has been asked in numerous surveys over the years in the US, "Would you vote for a female candidate for president?
    • In short, nearly 1/4 of cisgender Americans maintain sexist attitudes against women (trans people are not counted in the surveys).
    • In 2002, women were the victims of over 900,000 violent crimes and over 200,000 rapes or sexual assaults.
    • Men are more likely to be the victims of violent crime, but far less likely to be the victims of rapes or sexual assaults.

  • Crime Statistics

    • The statistics included in this section were chosen to provide a sampling of how crime statistics can be useful beyond simply reporting incidents of criminal behavior.
    • It is important to understand that crime statistics do not provide a perfect view of crime.
    • Government statistics on crime only show data for crimes that have been reported to authorities.
    • This suggests that the criminal justice system in the US values white victims above minority victims.
    • Homicide rates also vary the age of the victim, as shown in the chart below.