Criminal Victimization, 2009

Prevalence of Victimization in Patients With Dual Diagnosis

“…In addition, victimization was measured with a self-report questionnaire, which is subject to memory bias. However, self-reports of victimization are considered to be more accurate than police reports, which tend to underestimate victimization rates (Truman & Planty, 2012).…”

Improving Outcomes for Children Exposed to Violence: Safe Start Promising Approaches

“…The decline in most forms of childhood victimization mirrored a decline in violent crime victimization nationally. The rate of violent crime decreased from 79.8 per 1,000 in 1993 to 20.1 per 1,000 in 2014 (Truman and Langton, 2015). Even with the downward trend, children's exposure to violence is still substantial.…”

Effect of Missing Data on Classification Error in Panel Surveys

“…In this case, the new or newly eligible person will have missing values for previous waves when they were either not in the household or ineligible. The NCVS does have unit-level response rates in the high 80% range at the person level (see, for example, Truman and Morgan 2016).…”

“…The NCVS is a nationally representative, probability-based household survey of the United States sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau that gathers information on criminal victimization, reported and not reported to police (Truman and Morgan 2016). The NCVS incorporates a rotating panel design, which uses a stratified multistage cluster sample that includes roughly 50,000 households per sample group with each household interviewed every six months for a total of seven interviews.…”