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BJS has released Criminal Victimization, 2023. Its findings are based on data from BJS’s include statistics on nonfatal violent crimes (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault) and property crimes (burglary or trespassing, motor vehicle theft, and other types of household theft) reported and not reported to police. The report also describes the characteristics of crimes and victims. This report is the 51st in a series that began in 1973.
Criminal Victimization, 2023 (NCJ 309335) was written by BJS Statisticians Susannah N. Tapp, PhD and Emilie J. Coen, DrPH. The report, related documents, and additional information about BJS’s statistical publications and programs are available on the BJS website at bjs.ojp.gov.
Concurrent with release of the Criminal Victimization, 2023 bulletin, BJS has updated estimates of criminal victimization with 2023 data in its NCVS Dashboard (N-DASH), an interactive, online data visualization tool. This dynamic analysis tool allows users to examine NCVS data on both personal and property victimization by select victim, household, and incident characteristics. It provides direct and user-friendly access to the nation’s primary source of data on annual criminal victimization, beginning with 1993. The quick graphics and custom graphics pages allow users to view or create and download charts and tables.
BJS has released the 2023 and 1992–2023 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) public-use datasets through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. The NCVS is the nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization. It collects annual data on:
- nonfatal personal crimes (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated and simple assault, and personal larceny)
- household property crimes (burglary or trespassing, motor vehicle theft, and other types of household theft)
- whether crimes were reported to police and victim experiences with the criminal justice system.
BJS has updated the NCVS Application Programming Interface (API) with 2023 data. The API allows users to access select NCVS datasets and commonly used variables for analysis. This innovative tool provides researchers and developers with more user-friendly datasets containing commonly used variables in multiple formats along with related codebooks, methodology, and metadata.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Kevin M. Scott, PhD, is the acting director.
For more information on BJS's publications, data collections, data analysis tools, and funding opportunities, visit bjs.ojp.gov.
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