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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 ...

Campus Climate Survey Validation Study: College Experiences Survey

Krebs, Christopher; Lindquist, Christine; Planty, Michael; Langton, Lynn (RTI International, 2016)

The Campus Climate Survey Validation Study (CCSVS) was designed to efficiently and confidentially measure the incidence and prevalence of campus sexual assault and the campus climate related to sexual harassment and sexual ...

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 ...

Can Information Save Lives? Effect of a Victim-focused Police Intervention in Reducing Domestic Violence Deaths

Koppa, Vijetha (SSRN, 2018)

Approximately 1 in 3 women in the US experiences physical violence by an intimate partner in her lifetime (CDC, 2010), resulting in over 1,000 deaths every year. In an effort to reduce such fatalities, individual law ...

Can Justice System Interventions Prevent Intimate Partner Homicide? An Analysis of Rates of Helpseeking Prior to Fatality

Koppa, Vijetha; Messing, Jill Theresa (SSRN, 2019)

When women are killed, they are more likely to be killed by an intimate partner than anyone else, and a substantial proportion of women who are killed by an intimate were abused by that intimate partner before their death. ...

Capacity-Building for Practice and Innovation: A Research-to-Practice Fellowship Project

Berger, Carol; Cross, Elizabeth; Cross, Ted (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2018)

The National Children’s Alliance reports that there are now 854 member CACs [Children's Advocacy Center] throughout the country and 324,602 children were served in the most recent year in which data were available. Some ...

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 ...

Capturing Victims’ Voices on Justice through Research [Policy Brief]

Dusenbery, Malore (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2020)

The Center for Victim Research hosted a virtual research convening of victim-focused researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to explore how research has or could be used to capture victims' voices on justice and inform ...

Capturing Victims’ Voices on Justice through Research: A Virtual Research Convening [Slides]

Dusenbery, Malore; West, Carolyn; Hussemann, Jeanette; McCoy, Henrika (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2020)

A panel of three keynote speakers shared their work and recommendations for researching diverse victims’ experiences and perspectives on different systems and models of justice. Dr. West presented her decades of research ...

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 ...

Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE)

Reis, M.; Nahmiash, D. (The Canadian Association of Gerontology, 1995)

Reis and Nahmiash developed the Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE) in 1995 and validated it in 2010 to provide communities with a tool to screen for elder abuse through informal caregivers rather than having individuals rely ...

Caregiver distress, shared traumatic exposure, and child adjustment among area youth following the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing

Kerns, Caroline; Elkins, R. Meredith; Carpenter, Aubrey; Chou, Tommy; Greif Green, Jennifer (National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2014)

Background: Disasters are associated with myriad negative outcomes in youth, including posttraumatic stress disorder and related psychopathology. Prior work suggests links between caregiver distress and child mental health ...

Case Processing Delays and Tax Account Errors Increased Hardship for Victims of Identity Theft

Unknown author (U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, 2013)

Impact on Tax Payers: The Federal Trade Commission reported that identity theft was the number one complaint in Calendar Year 2012, and government documents and benefits fraud was the most common form of reported identity ...

Catastrophizing, rumination, and reappraisal prospectively predict adolescent PTSD symptom onset following a terrorist attack

Jenness, Jessica; Jager-Hyman, Shari; Heleniak, Charlotte; Beck, Aaron; Sheridan, Margaret; McLaughlin, Katie (National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2016)

Background: Disruptions in emotion regulation are a transdiagnostic risk factor for psychopathology. However, scant research has examined whether emotion regulation strategies are related to the onset of posttraumatic ...

Caught in the Scammer's Net: Risk Factors that May Lead to Becoming an Internet Fraud Victim

Shadel, Doug; Pak, Karla; Sauer, Jennifer (AARP, 2014)

A new AARP survey finds there are 15 particular behaviors, life experiences, and knowledge attributes that may make a person more vulnerable to online fraud. Data from this national and multi-state survey of over 11,000 ...

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, ...

The CDC’s Gun Injury Data Is Becoming Even More Unreliable

Campbell, Sean; Nass, Daniel (The Trace, 2019)

Every year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issues an estimate of the number of people nonfatally injured by guns, but even by the agency’s own standards, its recent numbers may not be trustworthy. This ...

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