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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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 Climates of Conflict: A Social Network Experiment Survey 
    Paluck, Betsy Levy; Shepherd, Hana H.; Aronow, Peter (National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016)
    Theories explaining human behavior argue that individuals look to others in their community to what behaviors are socially acceptable and what behaviors are deviant. Most individuals adjust their behavior so that it fits ...
  • 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 ...
  • Characteristics of School-Associated Youth Homicides — United States, 1994–2018 
    Holland, Kristin; Hall, Jeffrey; Wang, Jing; Gaylor, Elizabeth; Johnson, Linda; Shelby, Daniel; Simon, Thomas; School-Associated Violent Deaths Study Group (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019)
    To understand trends and characteristics in school-associated homicides involving youths, data from CDC’s School-Associated Violent Death Surveillance System were analyzed for 393 single-victim incidents that occurred ...
  • 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 ...