BJS has released the Survey of Sexual Victimization in Adult Correctional Facilities 2016–2020 datasets through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. The Survey of Sexual Victimization (SSV) is part of BJS's National Prison Rape Statistics Program, which gathers mandated data on the incidence and prevalence of sexual victimization in adult correctional and juvenile justice facilities under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA; P.L. 108–79).
The SSV is an administrative data collection based on allegations and substantiated incidents of sexual victimization by other inmates or staff that are reported to authorities. This collection includes summary-level data on allegations and substantiated incidents reported to all state prisons; the federal prison system; facilities operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; facilities operated by the U.S. military; and data collected from representative samples of jail jurisdictions, privately operated adult prisons and jails, and facilities in Indian country.
SSV datasets for the years below are now available:
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.
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