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  • California Crime Victims' Voices: Findings from the First-ever Survey of California Crime Victims and Survivors 
    Unknown author (Californians for Safety and Justice, 2017)
    Historically, there has been a severe lack of data on who California’s crime victims are, what they need to recover from crime and their opinions about our state’s justice priorities. To begin filling this gap in research, ...
  • The California Victim Compensation Program Baseline Data Report: A Comparison of 2010 Crime Rates and Victim Compensation Awards 
    Foemmel Bie, Robin (California Victim Compensation Board (CalVCB), 2015)
    Providing services to crime victim in the culturally and geographically diverse California environment can be an enormous challenge. To help meet this challenge, the Victim Compensation Government Claims Board (VCGCB) ...
  • The California Victim Compensation Program Needs Assessment Report: California’s Underserved Crime Victims and their Access to Victim Services and Compensation 
    Fox, Mindy; Munson, Christie; Foemmel Bie, Robin (California Victim Compensation Board (CalVCB), 2015)
    The California Victim Compensation Program (CalVCP) of the Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board (VCGCB) provides financial assistance to victims of violent crime and acts as liaison with other entities in ...
  • The Campus Sexual Assault (CSA) Study 
    Krebs, Christopher; Lindquist, Christine; Warner, Tara; Fisher, Bonnie; Martin, Sandra (National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS), 2007)
    Sexual assault is a public health and public safety problem with far-reaching implications. Although a substantial body of research on sexual assault exists, additional data are needed to help document the current magnitude ...
  • Campus Victimization, 1995-2015 
    Unknown author (Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), 2018)
    Each of the NCVRW Crime and Victimization Fact Sheets provides a snapshot of current research and victimization statistics in the United States....Campus sexual assault has received unparalleled media attention and policy ...
  • Capturing Human Trafficking Victimization Through Crime Reporting 
    Farrell, Amy; Dank, Meredith; Kafafian, Matthew; Lockwood, Sarah; Pfeffer, Rebecca; Hughes, Andrea; Vincent, Kyle (National Institute of Justice (NIJ), 2019)
    In 2008, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to begin collecting offense and arrest data about human trafficking as part of the Uniform ...
  • Career Strategies for Victim Researchers in Academic Settings 
    Murray, Christine (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2018)
    This Center for Victim Research (CVR) publication can help early career researchers gauge their institution's involvement in community-engaged research and explore ways to align their career goals with urgent needs in their ...
  • Cause of Death and the Quest for Meaning After the Loss of a Child (Author Manuscript) 
    Lichtenthal, Wendy; Neimeyer, Robert; Currier, Joseph; Roberts, Kailey; Jordan, Nancy (National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2014)
    This study examined patterns of making meaning among 155 parents whose children died from a variety of violent and non-violent causes. Findings indicated 53% of violent loss survivors could not make sense of their loss, ...
  • A Census of Domestic Violence: Gun Homicides in Arizona 
    Unknown author (Everytown for Gun Safety, 2015)
    Domestic violence homicides in Arizona are, to a significant degree, a problem of gun violence. According to an Everytown for Gun Safety analysis of the last five years of FBI data, 62 percent of women killed by intimate ...
  • Changes in Adolescents’ Risk Factors Following Peer Sexual Coercion: Evidence for a Feedback Loop 
    Young, Brennan; Furman, Wyndol; Jones, Meredith (2012)
    Investigators have identified a number of factors that increase the risk for experiencing sexual coercion, but as yet little is known about how sexual coercion in turn affects these risk factors. Using a sample of 110 ...
  • Changes in Adolescents’ Risk Factors Following Peer Sexual Coercion: Evidence for a Feedback Loop. 
    Young, Brennan J.; Furman, Wyndol; Jones, Meredith C. (2012)
    Investigators have identified a number of factors that increase the risk for experiencing sexual coercion, but as yet little is known about how sexual coercion in turn affects these risk factors. Using a sample of 110 ...
  • Changing the Trajectories of Justice-Involved Youth through Trauma-Informed, Evidenced Based Approaches 
    Goldman, Jane Halladay (National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, 2017)
    This PowerPoint addresses adolescent development and the role that trauma plays in the hindrance of healthy development. It is important to understand trauma in detention settings. This PowerPoint features a National Center ...
  • Characteristics of Gang Membership and Victimization 
    Rufino, Katrina; Fox, Kathleen; Kercher, Glen (Crime Victims' Institute at Sam Houston State University, 2011)
    The current study aimed to provide a backdrop to the emerging gang-victimization literature by examining: 1) characteristics of victimization for gang and non-gang members, 2) descriptors of gang membership comparing ...
  • Child Abuse and Domestic Violence: Putting CAPTA To Work 
    Miller, Jennifer; Robuck, Rebecca (Futures Without Violence, 2014)
    The 2010 reauthorization of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) included significant provisions to address the intersection of child maltreatment and domestic violence. Building on the knowledge gained ...
  • Child Abuse, Sexual Orientation, and Victimization 
    Koeppel, Maria; Bouffard, Lisa (Crime Victims' Institute at Sam Houston State University, 2013)
    Although the link between childhood victimization and experiences of victimization later in life seems to be clear…much less is known about the role of sexual orientation in that relationship. This report presents results ...
  • Child and Youth Victimization Known to Police, School, and Medical Authorities 
    Finkelhor, David; Ormrod, Richard; Turner, Heather; Hamby, Sherry (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), 2012)
    The 2008 inventory of childhood victimization—the National Study of Children’s Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV) (see “History of the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence,” p. 4)—allowed an assessment of whether ...
  • Child Attributions Mediate Relationships Between Violence Exposure and Trauma Symptomology. 
    Collins, Kathryn S.; Freeman, Pamela A. Clarkson; Unick, George Jay; Bellin, Melissa H.; Reinicker, Polly; Strieder, Frederick H. (2017)
    Violence and trauma exposure have been increasingly investigated as contributing to a range of negative outcomes in child physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and psychological functioning, particularly among youth who ...
  • Child Maltreatment 2015 
    Unknown author (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2015)
    National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) data are used for the Child Maltreatment report series…NCANDS collects case-level data on all children who received a CPS agency response in the form of an investigation ...
  • Child Maltreatment Facts at a Glance 
    Unknown author (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2012)
    This fact sheet provides data and statistics on child abuse and neglect through 2012, and is the most recent child maltreatment fact sheet on the CDC’s Violence Prevention website. This includes general child maltreatment ...
  • Child Maltreatment Surveillance: Uniform Definitions for Public Health and Recommended Data Elements 
    Leeb, Rebecca; Paulozzi, Leonard; Melanson, Cindi; Simon, Thomas; Arias, Ileana (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2008)
    This document defines child maltreatment, presents associated terms, and recommends data elements for voluntary use by individuals and organizations in the public health community. It is designed to aid state and local ...