Repeat Violent Victimization, 2005-14

• NCJ Number: 250567
• Date Published: August 2017
• Length: 5 pages
• Agencies: BJS
• Publication Series: BJS Special Reports

Annotation

This is a summary of the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS‘s) report on repeat violence victimization nationwide for the period 2005-14, which includes its prevalence, the victim-offender relationship, and types of repeat violence.

Abstract

This report presents national data on the prevalence of repeat violent victimization and the characteristics of repeat violence, including type of crime (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault), demographic characteristics of repeat victims, and victim-offender relationship (intimate partner, well-known or casual acquaintance, relative, and stranger). ]