Violence Against Women: Estimates From the Redesigned Survey

• NCJ Number: 154348
• Date Published: August 1995
• Author(s): R Bachman; L E Saltzman
• Length: 8 pages
• Publication Series: BJS Special Reports
• Agencies: BJS
• Publication Type: Survey

Annotation

This report presents the first release of 1992-93 estimates of violence against women that resulted from the new National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).

Abstract

This BJS Special Report is the first release of the 1992-93 estimates of violence against women after an extended effort to improve the victimization survey's ability to measure violence against women. The survey now asks more explicit and direct questions about sexual assaults and other victimizations perpetrated by known offenders. Data include annual number of violent victimizations, rapes, and sexual assaults against women; number perpetrated by intimates (including husbands, ex-husbands, boyfriends, and ex-boyfriends); rates for violence by intimates for women versus rates for men; rates for violence and sexual assaults by strangers; age and family income of female victims of violence; and rates of injury.