• National Census of Victim Service Providers: Making the Most of the Data [Slides] 

  Warnken, Heather; Oudekerk, Barbara (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2020)

  The National Census of Victim Service Providers (NCVSP) was the first-ever effort to collect data from all victim service providers across the nation, providing characteristics of 12,196 victim service providers across all ...
• Victim Service Providers in the United States, 2017 

  Oudekerk, Barbara; Warnken, Heather; Langton, Lynn (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 2019)

  This report provides statistics from the National Census of Victim Service Providers (VSPs), the first national data collection on the number and characteristics of these organizations. The census was conducted by BJS with ...
• Does Support Offline Keep You Safe Online? Interpersonal Strengths as Protective Factors Against Online Victimization 

  Blount, Zach; Taylor, Elizabeth; Hagler, Matt; Jones, Lisa; Mitchell, Kimberly; Hamby, Sherry (Appalachian Center for Resilience Research, 2017)

  Interpersonal strengths, such as family well-being and community support, are important protective factors and help individuals cope with adversity (Grych et al., 2015). Previous research primarily focuses on physical and ...
• Are Online Safety Practices Evidence-Based? An Exploration of Online Victimization and Its Predictors 

  Smith, Alli; Blount, Zach; Jones, Lisa; Mitchell, Kimberly; Hamby, Sherry (Appalachian Center for Resilience Research, 2017)

  Purpose: Cyberbullying has increasingly become a subject of study; however, research on other types of online victimization, particularly information theft or monetary loss, is relatively scarce. Furthermore, few studies ...
• Active Shooter Incidents in the United States from 2000-2018 

  Unknown author (Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 2019)

  [Included] is a list of active shooter incidents that took place in the United States between 2000-2018. The methodology used in compiling this list is articulated in A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States ...
• Opinion: We analyzed 53 years of mass shooting data. Attacks aren’t just increasing, they’re getting deadlier 

  Densley, James; Peterson, Jillian (Los Angeles Times, 2019)

  We’ve studied every public mass shooting since 1966 for a project funded by the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice. Our research spans more than 50 years, yet 20% of the 164 ...
• Mass Attacks in Public Spaces - 2018 

  Alathari, Lina; Blair, Ashley; Carlock, Arna; Driscoll, Steven; Drysdale, Diana; McGarry, Jeffrey (U.S. Secret Service, 2019)

  This report is NTAC’s second analysis of mass attacks that were carried out in public spaces, and it builds upon Mass Attacks in Public Spaces – 2017 (MAPS2017). In MAPS-2017, NTAC found that attackers from that year were ...
• Number of Gun Deaths in 2019 

  Unknown author (Gun Violence Archive, 2019)

  A comprehensive dataset on gun deaths in the United States in 2019 from the Gun Violence Archive. The data set can be sorted by incident date, state, city or county, address of incident, the number of people killed, and ...
• Mass Shootings Since Sandy Hook, in One Map 

  Lopez, German; Sukumar, Kavya (Vox, 2020)

  There have been at least 2,409 mass shootings in the United States since a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut on December 14, 2012. This interactive infographic gives detailed information on mass ...
• A Study of the Pre-Attack Behaviors of Active Shooters in the United States Between 2000 and 2013 

  Silver, James; Simons, Andre; Craun, Sarah (Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 2018)

  In 2014, the FBI published a report titled A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States Between 2000 and 2013. The present study (“Phase II”) is the natural second phase of that initiative, moving from an ...
• Digital poly-victimization: The increasing importance of online crime and harassment to the burden of victimization 

  Hamby, Sherry; Blount, Zach; Smith, Alli; Jones, Lisa; Mitchell, Kimberly; Taylor, Elizabeth (Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 2018)

  Many forms of victimization, including bullying and property crime, are increasingly moving online, but most studies of poly-victimization still primarily focus on in-person crime and violence.Few studies have examined the ...
• Trauma Recovery Centers: Addressing the Needs of Underserved Crime Survivors 

  Unknown author (National Alliance of Trauma Recovery Centers, 2020)

  Survivors of violent crime face many barriers to healing along their journey to recovery. Experiencing interpersonal violence, such as a physical or sexual assault, or a gunshot wound or stabbing, can cause devastating, ...
• Comparison of Abuse Experiences of Rural and Urban African American Women During Perinatal Period 

  Bhandari, Shreya; Bullock, Linda; Richardson, Jeanita; Kimeto, Pamela; Campbell, Jacquelyn; Sharps, Phyllis (National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2015)

  A subsample of 12 African American women (6 urban and 6 rural) were selected from a larger longitudinal, randomized control trial, Domestic Violence Enhanced Home Visitation (DOVE-R01 900903 National Institute of Nursing ...
• Pregnancy and Intimate Partner Violence: How do Rural, Low-Income Women Cope? 

  Bhandari, Shreya; Bullock, Linda; Anderson, Kim; Danis, Fran; Sharps, Phyllis (National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2011)

  The authors conducted thirty-two in-depth interviews with 20 rural, low-income, women residing in the United States, who were pregnant (n =12) or three months postpartum (n =8) and had experienced intimate partner violence ...
• 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 ...
• “It’s how we deal”: Perceptions of LGB peers’ use of alcohol and other drugs to cope and sexual minority adults’ own coping motivated substance use following the Pulse nightclub shooting 

  Boyle, Sarah; LaBrie, Joseph; Costine, Lauren; Witkovic, Yong (National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2017)

  Sexual minority stress experiences (e.g. prejudice, victimization, etc.) and peer substance use norms (e.g. peers’ frequency of use and quantity consumed) are important correlates of alcohol and drug use in sexual minority ...
• Evaluation of a Service Provision Program for Victims of Sex Trafficking 

  Rothman, Emily; Bair-Merritt, Megan; Farrell, Amy (National Criminal Justice Reference Services (NCJRS), 2019)

  We evaluated both the My Life My Choice prevention group program and the survivor mentorship program using a longitudinal, mixed-methods design (Figure 1). The purpose of this study was to (1) determine whether participation ...
• Needs of Male Sexual Assault Victims in the U.S. Armed Forces 

  Matthews, Miriam; Farris, Coreen; Tankard, Margaret; Dunbar, Michael Stephen (National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2018)

  This article reviews research on sexual assault against men and describes interviews with military service providers and civilian experts. It concludes with recommendations for improving support to male sexual assault ...
• 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 ...
• School- and Classroom-Based Supports for Children Following the 2013 Boston Marathon Attack and Manhunt 

  Greif Green, Jennifer; Holt, Melissa; Kwong, Lana; Reid, Gerald; Xuan, Ziming; Comer, Jonathan (National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2015)

  School staff provide key mental health services following mass crisis events and teachers, in particular, can provide important supports within their classrooms. This study examines Boston-area teachers’ perception of ...

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