Criminal Justice: Victims of Crime

Provides information of characteristics of victims, including age, race, ethnicity, gender, marital status and household income.

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) collects information from victims on nonfatal violent and property crimes, reported and not reported to the police, against persons age 12 or older from a nationally representative sample of U.S. households. It produces national rates and levels of personal and property victimization.

Reports and data sources cover topics related to violence, including child maltreatment, elder abuse, global violence, partner and sexual violence, suicide, and youth violence.

Perform custom analyses on more than thirty years of national and state data on homicide victims and known homicide offenders.

1992-2011 homicide trends is the latest report available from the BJS.

NCVS is the nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization.

"NVDRS is the only state-based surveillance (reporting) system that pools data on violent deaths from multiple sources into a usable, anonymous database. These sources include state and local medical examiner, coroner, law enforcement, crime lab, and vital statistics records"--from website.

Reports from the Office of Victims of Crime