A new study found the campus sexual violence rate is around one percent, which differs from the oft-cited claim that 1 in 5 ...

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As policymakers in state capitols and on Capitol Hill debate criminal justice reform, it’s worth considering who crime victims are and their views on laws meant to punish those who do them harm. A ...

NEW YORK — Respondents to a federal crime victimization survey in New York and other Northeast states will no longer be asked if they have experienced bigotry because of their gender identity after ...

The National Crime Victimization Survey, which the Justice Department conducts annually, shows a 43% increase in violent crime from 2020 to 2022. But another federal source shows the opposite picture.

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Argentina’s first official report on crime victimization in years represents an initial step toward enhancing transparency around security issues, but it is still too early to tell what is driving the ...

A study in the latest issue of Preventive Medicine estimates that less than 1 percent of crime victims use guns in self-defense. The authors, Harvard health policy professor David Hemenway and ...

The nation in general, and the Spokane City Council and the Spokane County Commissioners in particular, is finally addressing racial and ethnic disparities in the application of the criminal justice ...

How do you measure rape and sexual assault? It’s a tricky and loaded question, and the answer impacts a couple of highly charged debates. As in: If you believe the measurements that say sexual ...

WASHINGTON – One of the nation’s largest surveys of crime victims is likely undercounting incidences of rape and sexual assault, making it difficult to ensure that adequate law enforcement resources ...