Measuring Adult Victimization in Alaska: Technical Report

Alaska Justice Statistical Analysis Center, Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage. (2002). Measuring Adult Victimization in Alaska: Technical Report. Report prepared under Grant No. 2000-BJ-CX-K013 from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Anchorage, AK: Alaska Justice Statistical Analysis Center, Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage.

Summary: In Fall 2000, the Justice Center received funding from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to administer a local version of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to a sample of residents in Anchorage, Alaska. However, problems associated with the Crime Victimization Survey software provided by BJS resulted in the recording of inaccurate data, incorrect dates, and incomplete responses. In addition, the software was not easily modified and exported data was often incomplete and/or difficult to analyze. Due to these limitations, the Justice Center submitted a revised proposal outlineing a project designed to overcome the limitation of the Crime Victimization Survey software. This report describes the process of developing and and testing a criminal victimization survey using a commercially available computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) sortware program.