NCJ Number
167883
Date Published
1998
Length
385 pages
Annotation
This packet contains major resources for domestic violence data, presenting data on incidents of abuse between spouses, former spouses, and boyfriends and girlfriends, as well as providing references on other domestic violence victim-offender relationships.
Abstract
The data presented cover the period from 1994 to 1996 from two major national domestic violence data-collection programs: The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Copies of 10 relevant BJS reports are provided, along with a diskette that contains PDF and/or ASCII files and spreadsheets of two BJS reports: Criminal Victimization in the United States, 1994, and the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Report. Selected tables are presented from a number of other reports. Also included are a list of relevant data sets from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, a list of subject-specific publications and products from agencies of the Office of Justice Program, and a collection of representative citations from the NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) Abstracts Database. Further, the packet contains a search of Justice Research and Statistics Association's Database of State Activities and Research, which contains completed and ongoing State domestic violence projects from 1994 to the present. Other packet materials are a list of domestic violence-related online resources, a list of referrals and State contacts for domestic violence data, and a collection of child abuse and elder abuse citations from a number of major databases.