Gender Differences in Acknowledgment of Stalking Victimization: Results From the NCVS Stalking Supplement

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 560-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine M. Englebrecht ◽  
Bradford W. Reyns
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
National Crime Victimization Survey ◽  
Male Victims ◽  
Crime Victimization ◽  
Criminal Victimization ◽  
Victimization Survey ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Stalking Victims ◽  
Stalking Victimization

Research suggests that a significant portion of victims of interpersonal violence do not acknowledge or label their experience as a criminal victimization. Studies exploring unacknowledged victimizations have found that individuals are more likely to acknowledge victimization when the experience meets certain, often stereotypical criteria. This study addressed this issue by integrating literature on victim acknowledgment and stalking victimization to identify correlates of victimization acknowledgment among stalking victims. Data were drawn from the 2006 stalking supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), and the sample included both female and male victims of stalking. Findings revealed support for a “classic stalking script,” which included a reliance on stereotypical types of stalking behavior (i.e., being spied on) that were shown to increase acknowledgment for victims of stalking. Results also described gender based correlates of victimization acknowledgment.

Gender Identity Disparities in Criminal Victimization: National Crime Victimization Survey, 2017–2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 726-729
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Flores ◽  
Ilan H. Meyer ◽  
Lynn Langton ◽  
Jody L. Herman
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Crime Victimization Survey ◽  
Crime Victimization ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Criminal Victimization ◽  
Victimization Survey ◽  
Nationally Representative

Objectives. To estimate the prevalence of personal and household victimizations among transgender people in the United States. Methods. We analyzed pooled 2017 and 2018 data from the National Crime Victimization Survey, the first nationally representative sample that allows identification of transgender respondents. Results. Transgender people experienced 86.2 victimizations per 1000 persons compared with cisgender people’s 21.7 per 1000 persons (odds ratio [OR] = 4.24; 90% confidence interval [CI] = 1.49, 7.00). Households that had a transgender person had higher rates of property victimization (214.1 per 1000 households) than households with only cisgender people (108 per 1000 households; OR = 2.25; 90% CI = 1.19, 3.31). Transgender victims whose sex assigned at birth was male were more likely to perceive their victimization as a hate crime than cisgender victims whose sex assigned at birth was male. There were no disparities in reporting victimizations to authorities: only about half of the victimizations of both transgender and cisgender people were reported. Conclusions. Public policy and administration need to consider the unique vulnerabilities transgender people routinely encounter, resulting in disparities in criminal victimization.

Trends in the Lethality of American Violence

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark T. Berg
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
National Crime Victimization Survey ◽  
Crime Victimization ◽  
Homicide Rates ◽  
Victimization Survey

Research on homicide trends has not adequately considered trends in interpersonal disputes. Aggregate homicide rates partly reflect the extent to which less serious forms of interpersonal violence escalate to deadly violence. This study argues that the rate of disputes in a society and the proportion that result in deadly violence vary independently. But both are necessary to understand lethality trends. The study compares rates of homicide in the Supplemental Homicide Report with rates of violence in the National Crime Victimization Survey to estimate lethality trends from 1992 to 2016. Findings are discussed regarding their implications for explanations of homicide trends.

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