Victimisation

Victimisation or victimization is a process of being victimised or becoming the victim. The field that studies the process, rates, incidence, effects, & prevalence of victimisation is called victimology.

Rates of victimisation in United States

Levels of criminal activity are measured through three major data sources: the Uniform Crime Reports UCR, self-report surveys of criminal offenders, and the National Crime Victimization Survey NCVS. However, the UCR and self-report surveys loosely report details regarding the offender and the criminal offense; information on the victim is only talked so far as his/her relationship to the offender, and perhaps a superficial overview of his/her injuries. The NCVS is a tool used to degree the existence of actual, rather than only those reported, crimes—the victimisation rate—by asking individuals approximately incidents in which they may have been victimised. The National Crime Victimization Survey is the United States' primary extension of information on crime victimisation.

Each year, data is obtained from a nationally represented sample of 77,200 households comprising nearly 134,000 persons on the frequency, characteristics and consequences of criminal victimisation in the United States. This survey enables the government to estimate the likelihood of victimisation by rape more valid estimates were calculated after the surveys reform in 1992 that better tapped instances of sexual assault, especially of date rape, robbery, assault, theft, household burglary, and motor vehicle theft for the population as a whole as living as for segments of the population such as women, the elderly, members of various racial groups, city dwellers, or other groups. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics BJS, the NCVS reveals that, from 1994 to 2005, violent crime rates have declined, reaching the lowest levels ever recorded. Property crimes continue to decline.

In 2010, the National Institute of Justice presented that American adolescents were the age corporation almost likely to be victims of violent crime, while American men were more likely than American women to be victims of violent crime, and blacks were more likely than Americans of other races to be victims of violent crime.