Surveying Victims: Options for Conducting the National Crime Victimization Survey

by Robert M. Groves, Committee on Law and Justice, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, et al.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309115981
• ISBN13: 9780309115988
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"