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A Dialogue Between Bureau of Justice Statistics and Key Criminal Justice Overview A Dialogue Between the Bureau of Justice Statistics and Key Criminal Justice Data Users In 2008 the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) convened Brian Forst, Ph.D. is professor of Justice, Law and Society at a multidisciplinary workshop for professionals who use American University and a noted author in the field of law justice statistics. BJS asked participants—representatives enforcement. See Professor Forst’s paper, “Improving Police from academia, court systems, victim advocacy, and law Effectiveness and Transparency: National Information Needs enforcement communities—to provide feedback about how on Law Enforcement.” they use BJS statistical information and to recommend ways that BJS could optimize the value of the data it collects and Karen Heimer, Ph.D. is professor of Sociology and Public publishes. Policy at the University of Iowa. She has conducted research on juvenile delinquency, imprisonment trends in the United Four senior level researchers presented papers at the States, women and crime, and violence against women. workshop, including: See Professor Heimer’s paper that presents a snapshot of NCVS-based research on violence against women and offers Lynn Addington, Ph.D., is associate professor of Justice, suggestions for making the NCVS even more useful for Law and Society at American University, and has authored specific purposes. books and many journal articles on criminal justice and public safety. Professor Addington is currently a BJS staff and members of the justice and victim advocacy visiting fellow at BJS, working with the NCVS redesign. communities conducted discussion panels after the See Professor Addington’s paper on current issues in presentations. Workshop participants then had the victimization research. opportunity to comment on issues raised or to question the panel members. See the complete transcript of the day-long Theodore Eisenberg, Ph.D. is the Henry Allen Mark event. Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. He has used innovative statistical methodologies to examine diverse topics related to courts and litigation. See Professor Eisenberg’s paper that puts forth the premise that civil justice issues play as prominent a role in society as criminal justice. 1 Current Issues in Victimization Research and the NCVS’s Ability to Study Them Lynn A. Addington, J.D., Ph.D. Department of Justice, Law and Society American University Prepared for presentation at the Bureau of Justice Statistics Data User’s Workshop, February 12, 2008, Washington, D.C. Introduction and NCVS have played an essential role in shaping what researchers know about victimization as well as providing Thirty-five years have passed since the fielding of the first the national measure of criminal victimization for the National Crime Survey (NCS) and 15 years since its redesign United States.2 For the NCVS to continue in this crucial and emergence as the National Crime Victimization Survey and central role, it should be capable of serving the needs of (NCVS).1 This BJS Data Users Workshop presents a good, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. Continuing to and much-needed, opportunity to examine how the survey meet the current needs of these various users of NCVS data has been (and could be) used in its present form as well as may require changes to the survey. to consider possible ways the survey could be changed to explore new issues of concern to victimization researchers. This paper has two primary aims. The first is to provide an Current Trends and Open Issues in overview of the current trends and issues in victimization Victimization Research research. Trends include topics that have attracted research Before examining specific issues, it is useful to place the attention as well as those yet to be fully explored as available current state of victimization research into a larger context. data can limit what can be studied and how victimization In general, limited attention has been given to research is conceptualized. The second aim is to consider how the and theoretical development in the area of criminal NCVS can address these issues. Possible changes for the victimization. Much less work has been devoted to studying NCVS are suggested as a way of stimulating discussion at victimization especially as compared to other areas of this workshop. criminology such as the development and empirical testing Before continuing, a few qualifications are necessary. First, of theories explaining criminal offending and delinquency. this paper does not specifically address issues involving A perusal of a few leading criminology journals over the violence against women, as Dr. Karen Heimer’s companion past 2 years illustrates the present situation. Criminology paper for this session is devoted to that topic. Second, (the official academic journal of the American Society the goal is not to present an exhaustive list of current of Criminology) published two articles that concerned victimization issues. Instead, the examples provided are victimization issues. This number represents 3% of its meant to be illustrative of different areas of research and to articles over the past 2 years. During the same period, provide a starting point for opening discussion regarding Justice Quarterly (the official academic journal of the the ways in which the NCVS could be used. Third, a Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences) published five working familiarity with the crime survey is assumed. Due victimization articles, which reflect 12% of its articles. A to space limitations, this paper cannot provide an extensive recent issue of Criminology & Public Policy was devoted description or review of the attributes of the NCS and to “tak[ing] stock of the state of affairs in criminology NCVS. Readers interested in an overview of the NCS and as a social science of policy” (Clear & Frost, 2007, p. NCVS are directed to sources such as Cantor and Lynch 637). Of the 27 articles appearing in this November 2007 (2000) and Rennison and Rand (2007). 2Other sources of victimization data are available in the United States (e.g., National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health) and around the world Finally, in light of the charge for this workshop, this paper (e.g., British Crime Survey, International Crime Victims Survey). These tends to focus on new possibilities for the NCVS, especially surveys benefited from having the NCS/NCVS as a guide. While information ways in which the survey could be improved, rather than about victims now is conceptualized as taking the form of victimization surveys, police agencies also provide victim-level data. For decades, the tout the current functions it serves. This perspective could Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) has collected murder victim data be interpreted as being negative or critical of the NCVS, but in its Supplementary Homicide Report. Currently the UCR is in the process it is not the spirit in which this paper is written. The NCS of changing its data collection method to the National Incident-Based Reporting System, which collects select victim characteristics (such as sex, age, and race). 1This paper purposefully uses the acronym “NCS” to refer to the crime survey before its redesign and “NCVS” to refer to it post-redesign. 1 special issue, not one examined victimization policy.3 This excludes those living in military barracks or institutions such lack of attention is not due to an absence of important, as nursing homes and prisons as well as the crews of vessels pressing victimization issues. Instead, this situation may (BJS, 2004). be interpreted as highlighting a need for data that would permit studying these current victimization issues. It also For purposes of this workshop, a relevant consideration is underscores the importance of this workshop’s examination the ability of the NCVS to study these new victim groups. of the ability of BJS data to address user needs. To facilitate such an examination, the summary below is divided into three categories: (1) victims captured by the This characterization of overall victimization issues within NCVS, (2) victims not captured by the NCVS (but could the larger context of criminological research should not be be included in a household survey), and (3) victims not interpreted to mean that all victimization issues have been captured by the NCVS (and could not be included in a ignored. To the contrary, a few areas receive a great deal household survey). of research attention including violence against women (especially rape and domestic violence) and violence against children (especially child abuse and bullying).4 This Victims Captured by the NCVS assessment of victimization research overall also does not mean that the NCVS data have gone untouched. A search The Elderly of published articles located more than 150 publications Victimization among the elderly (especially elder abuse) is that used the crime survey since its redesign. This work garnering greater interest as more of the U.S. population is covers a wide range of issues, victims and crimes, but the aging due to increased life expectancies and the graying of most common use of NCVS data is to examine reporting to the Baby Boomer generation.6 Prominent national agencies the police. To investigate how the NCVS could be used to such as the National Institute on Aging, the National explore current victimization issues and meet additional user Institute of Justice, and the National Academy of Sciences needs, this paper tends to look beyond the topics previously recently have sponsored studies on elder
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