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Who's Counting and What's Being Counted?
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Presenters: |
Cynthia Barnett-Ryan,
Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Federal Bureau of Investigation;
Michael Rand,
Victimization Statistics, Bureau of Justice Statistics;
Linda E. Saltzman,
Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and Suzanne
Lindsay, Division of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health,
San Diego State University.
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Date/Time:
Friday, April 25, 2003 / 10:00-11:30am |
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Abstract: |
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One in six women are raped in their
lifetime. 62.2 of every 100,000 women were victims of forcible
rape in 2001. Where do these facts come from? How can you better
understand and use them? This panel of experts will present the
major sources of national data on the incidence and prevalence
of sexual violence including how the information is collected,
methodological and definitional issues, the differences between
different sources of data, and what you need to know to
understand and compare various reports using the different
sources of data. Cynthia Barnett-Ryan from the Federal Bureau of
Investigation will describe the Uniform Crime Reporting Summary
Program (UCR) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
including recent changes and improvements. The discussion will
address the strengths and limitations of these systems of
reporting (including how the data can and cannot be used).
Michael Rand from the Bureau of Justice Statistics will discuss
the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), an on-going
survey that has been collecting data from a national
representative sample of residential addresses including
personal and household victimization since 1973. Linda E.
Saltzman will describe the activities of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention in the area of sexual violence including
a description of the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAW),
a joint effort between the National Institute of Justice and the
CDC. She will also describe other sources of data used by the
CDC such as the National Violent Death Reporting System, the
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, and vital
statistics. Suzanne Lindsay from the Graduate School of Public
Health at San Diego State University will moderate the panel. At
the end of this session, participants will have a basic
understanding of the major national sources of data regarding
sexual violence, and how to best interpret the findings from
each. |
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