• 2016 Indiana Crime Victimization Comprehensive Survey 

  Aiken, Ashley; Ross, Joshua; Canada, Meredith; Farrington, Elizabeth; Reynolds, Christine (Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, 2017)

  The propose of the Indiana Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS) was to collect data on crimes, both reported and unreported, in Indiana during a specified time period. The survey's intent was to provide an in-depth overview ...
• Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire - 2nd Revision (JVQ-R2) 

  Hamby, Sherry; Finkelhor, David; Ormrod, Richard; Turner, Heather (2011)

  The National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence I was designed to obtain lifetime and one-year incidence estimates of a comprehensive range of childhood victimizations across gender, race, and developmental stage. ...
• Child Abuse: Improving Investigation & Prosecution Survey 

  Johnson, Sherri (Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, 2013)

  This survey was developed to gather information on investigative, administrative, and judicial processes related to child abuse and neglect, including child sexual abuse/exploitation, in Virginia. The study focused on three ...
• ORI [Obsessive Relational Intrusion] & Stalking Victimization Package 

  Spitzberg, Brian H.; Cupach, William R. (Routledge, 2014)

  This is intended to be a relatively comprehensive survey measuring the acknowledgement of stalking and unwanted harassment, the effects of this victimization and the strategies enacted to cope with the victimization. It ...
• An Exploratory Study of New York City’s Commercial Sex Industry 

  White, Elise; Swaner, Rachel; Genetta, Emily; Lambson, Suvi Hynynen; Dash, Janelle Johnson; Sederbaum, Isaac; Wolf, Ariel (New York Center for Court Innovation, 2017)

  With funding from the National Institute of Justice, the Center for Court Innovation conducted a mixed-method empirical study to fill the knowledge gap. Ultimately, the study’s purpose was to provide an evidence-based ...
• Financial Exploitation of the Elderly in a Consumer Context 

  Reisig, Michael D.; Mears, Daniel P.; Wolfe, Scott E.; Holtfreter, Kristy (Psychology, Crime & Law, 2015)

  The goal of this research was to provide researchers, practitioners, and policy makers with an empirically-based understanding of financial exploitation of elderly consumers. This study focused on Arizona and Florida, two ...
• Insights from the NCVS Data for the Victim Assistance Field: Who Might We Be Missing? 

  Warnken, Heather; Lauritsen, Janet (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2018)

  During this Center for Victim Research webinar, presenters shared findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) about who is at greatest risk for violence and the use of victim services. Special emphasis was ...
• A review of international survey methodology on child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation 

  Radford, Lorraine (Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse, 2018)

  The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse is scoping the options for undertaking a comprehensive prevalence study of child sexual abuse in England and Wales. To inform that work, the Centre commissioned this review of ...
• The National School Safety Center's Report on School Associated Violent Deaths 

  Stephens, Ronald (The National School Safety Center, 2010)

  DEFINITION: A school-associated violent death is any homicide, suicide, or weapons-related violent death in the United States in which the fatal injury occurred: 1) on the property of a functioning public, private or ...
• Assessing Professional and Community Needs, Resources and Experience with Human Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: A Report 

  Steele, Paul (National Children's Advocacy Center (NCAC), 2018)

  The human trafficking (HT) for sexual purposes and the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) are high crimes that have devastating consequences for the victims and others. Even though awareness of the occurrence ...
• Who Experiences Violent Victimization and Who Accesses Services? Findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey for Expanding Our Reach 

  Warnken, Heather; Lauritsen, Janet (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2019)

  The purpose of this research is to identify groups of persons at high risk for serious violent victimization to help inform how victim services and assistance can be targeted to victims of greatest need. Disparities in ...
• Human Trafficking in the Midwest: Service Providers’ Perspectives on Sex and Labor Trafficking 

  Schwarz, Corinne (Kansas University, 2017)

  This report covers the findings of ASHTI’s two-state survey to gather information from service providers working with vulnerable persons in the Midwest. Based on previous ASHTI interviews, the research team created a survey ...
• Queering the Support for Trafficked Persons: LGBTQ Communities and Human Trafficking in the Heartland 

  Schwarz, Corinne; Britton, Hannah (Social Inclusion, 2015)

  Human trafficking justice centers on the “Three Ps” model of prevention, protection, and prosecution. While protection and prosecution efforts have been moderately successful, prevention remains elusive, as “upstream” ...
• Evaluation of the expect respect support group program: A violence prevention strategy for youth exposed to violence 

  Reidy, Dennis; Holland, Kristin; Cortina, Kai; Ball, Barbara; Rosenbluth, Barri (Elsevier, 2017)

  In the present study, we assess the effects of the Expect Respect Support Groups (ERSG) on frequency of teen dating violence (TDV) and general youth violence. ERSG is a school-based violence prevention program for youth ...
• Media Coverage outside the Courtroom: Public opinion of restrictions imposed on news journalists and psychological effects on crime victims 

  Fusco, Nina Marie (Université de Montréal, 2011)

  As media coverage has been shown to influence virtually everyone that it reaches, from its consumers to jurors in cases with pretrial publicity to eyewitnesses, the two studies that comprise the present dissertation ...
• Evaluation and Impact of Trauma Informed Training on Child Professionals: UMMS Child Trauma Training Center (CTTC) 

  Kostova, Zlatina; Griffin, Jessica; Kane-Howse, Genevieve (Psychiatry Information in Brief, 2018)

  Childhood trauma is one of the leading causes of mental health conditions and poor health outcomes. Timely diagnosis and treatment can therefore have a sizable impact on emotional and physical health. Yet, notwithstanding ...
• Technology-facilitated gender-based violence: What is it, and how do we measure it? 

  Hinson, Laura; Mueller, Jennifer; O'Brien-Milne, Lila; Wandera, Naome (International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2018)

  Working with the World Bank Group and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative, we took an in-dept look at existing interventions and identified gaps in current research. We wanted to understand more about the attitudes ...
• The Kansas Sexual Assault Kit Initiative: Underlying Factors Contributing to the Accumulation of Unsubmitted Sexual Assault Kits in Kansas 

  Whisman, Katie; Roberts, Megan (Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI), 2017)

  The purpose of this publication is to identify the underlying factors that have contributed to an accumulation of unsubmitted Sexual Assault Kits (SAKs) in Kansas and set forth recommendations intended to help prevent a ...
• Bridging Research and Practice to Expand Our Reach [Slides] 

  Smith, Nancy (National Resource Center on Reaching Victims (NRC), 2019)

  These slides come from the National Resource Center on Reaching Victims webinar summarizing their needs assessment to understand the factors contributing to some communities being underserved. See also webinar recording ...
• Bridging Research and Practice to Expand Our Reach [Transcript] 

  Smith, Nancy (National Resource Center on Reaching Victims (NRC), 2019)

  This is the transcript of the National Resource Center on Reaching Victims webinar that summarizes the findings of their needs assessment to understand the factors contributing to some communities being underserved. The ...

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