December 1, 2006    NCJ 215244

Presents tables with detailed data on major variables measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Topics covered include --

• crimes of violence (rape, gender, sexual assault, robbery, assault) and theft (pocket picking, purse snatching, burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft), with data on victim characteristics (gender, age, race, ethnicity, marital status, income, and residence)
• crime characteristics (time and place of occurrence, distance from home, weapon use, self-protection, injury, medical care, economic loss, and time lost from work)
• victim-offender relationship
• victims' perceptions of substance use by offenders and of offender characteristics (age, race, and gender)
• whether crimes were reported to the police and reasons why
• police response time for reported crimes

Part of the Criminal Victimization in the United States Series

Complete set of tables (PDF 723K)
Complete set of tables - Zip format (Spreadsheet 152K)
Demography of victims (PDF 221K)
Demography of victims - Zip format (Spreadsheet 59K)
Victims and offenders (PDF 217K)
Victims and offenders - Zip format (Spreadsheet 57K)
Geography (PDF 174K)
Geography - Zip format (Spreadsheet 29K)
The crime event (PDF 243K)
The crime event - Zip format (Spreadsheet 73K)
Victims and the criminal justice system (PDF 206K)
Victims and the criminal justice system - Zip format (Spreadsheet 47K)
Series victimizations (PDF 128K)
Series victimizations - Zip format (Spreadsheet 4K)
Methodology (PDF 49K)
Methodology (ASCII file 47K)
NCVS questionnaires
Codebooks and Datasets

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