BJS Releases Criminal Victimization, 2024

BJS Releases Criminal Victimization, 2024

The Bureau of Justice Statistics, in the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, released Criminal Victimization, 2024 today. This report presents official estimates of nonfatal criminal victimization reported and not reported to police from BJS's National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).

The report is the 52nd in a series that began in 1973 and includes statistics on nonfatal violent crimes (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault) and property crimes (burglary or trespassing, motor vehicle theft, and other types of household theft). The report also describes characteristics of crimes and victims.

BJS conducted a multiyear effort to improve the efficiency, reliability, and utility of the NCVS and redesigned the entire Survey Instrument. In 2024, BJS coordinated with the U.S. Census Bureau, the NCVS data collection agent, to administer the legacy instrument and redesigned instrument through a split-sample design. This report focuses on statistics that were produced with data collected from the 2024 legacy instrument.

National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Series Concurrently, BJS updated estimates of criminal victimization through the NCVS Dashboard (N-DASH), an interactive online data visualization dashboard and released NCVS Select datasets through the NCVS Application Program Interface (API). In addition, BJS released a series of infographics highlighting key findings from the 2024 legacy NCVS. Public-use NCVS legacy datasets and associated documentation can be found at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data.

About the Bureau of Justice Statistics

The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. More information about BJS and criminal justice statistics can be found at bjs.ojp.gov.

About the Office of Justice Programs

The Office of Justice Programs provides federal leadership, grants, training, technical assistance and other resources to improve the nation's capacity to prevent and reduce crime; promote fair and impartial administration of justice; assist victims; and uphold the rule of law. More information about OJP and its program offices - the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Institute of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office for Victims of Crime and Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking or SMART Office - can be found at ojp.gov.

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