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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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