Crime and Incarceration rates

[Fellows, Jeffrey]

A much better source for intimate partner violence (domestic violence
includes child abuse, elder abuse, and sibling abuse) statistics is the
recently completed National Violence Against Women Survey (go to
www.cdc.gov/ncipc for information). The numbers of IPV victimizations are
greater than the NCVS, but not so much that the NCVS is totally useless.
Unfortunately, the NVAWS is not an annual survey. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Adam Stevens [SMTP:a_ste at uclink4.berkeley.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 08, 1999 3:19 AM
> To:	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject:	Re: Crime and Incarceration rates
> 
> 
> >I believe that the justice department's major cross-sectional survey of
> >crime rates, but the Bureau of Justice Statistics' flagship survey, the
> >National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), is done through statistical
> >sampling rather than through police reports. Rates of reporting (or
> >conviction) thus aren't really germane to the question.>
> 
> The NCVS always shows there is much more crime than the DOJ's Uniform
> Crime
> Report which is basically just a tally of reported FBI index crimes.
> There
> are still a lot of problems with the NCVS though.  For example: domestic
> violence is under-counted because the people doing the survey call and ask
> for the "head of household."  When they ask if "you or anyone in your
> family" has been the victim of a violent crime, the male head of household
> is unlikely to respond that "Why yes, I beat the hell out of my wife 3
> times
> so far this year."
>