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Victimization Survey Method

The victimization survey method measures crime by asking a representative sample of households or individuals what they have actually experienced, rather than counting offenses recorded by police. Pioneered in the United States with the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and developed in Britain as the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), it captures the 'dark figure' of crime that never reaches the authorities, using a rotating-panel design with screening questions, detailed incident forms, bounding interviews, and weighted estimation.

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Crime Victimization Survey Methodology

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Lynch, J. P., & Addington, L. A. (Eds.) (2007). Understanding Crime Statistics: Revisiting the Divergence of the NCVS and UCR. Cambridge University Press. · ISBN 9780521862042
Cantor, D., & Lynch, J. P. (2000). Self-report surveys as measures of crime and criminal victimization. Criminal Justice 2000, Volume 4, 85–138. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice. · URL

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Same method familyCrime Concentration Indexmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Used in the same domainRepeat Victimization Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familySelf-Report Delinquency Scalemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.