| BJS home page
What's
new
Relevant topic:
Crime & victims statistics -
· Victims characteristics
· Crime characteristics
|
Stalking Victimization in the United States
Presents findings on nonfatal stalking victimization in the U.S., based on the largest data collection of such behavior to date. Data were collected in a supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and sponsored by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). Topics covered in the report are stalking and harassment prevalence rates by demographic characteristics, offender characteristics, victim-offender relationship, duration of stalking, cyberstalking, protection measures, and emotional impact. The report also includes data on whether victim sought help from others, involvement of a weapon, injuries, other crimes perpetrated by the stalker, and response by the criminal justice system.
Highlights include the following:
- About half (46%) of stalking victims experienced at least one unwanted contact per week, and 11% of victims said
they had been stalked for 5 years or more.
- Approximately 1 in 4 stalking victims reported some form of cyberstalking such as e-mail (83%) or instant messaging
(35%).
- Women were at greater risk than men for stalking victimization;
however, women and men were equally likely to
experience harassment.
1/09 NCJ 224527
Press release |
Acrobat file (148K) | ASCII file (34K) | Spreadsheets (zip format 26K)
About
the source data | To order paper version
Help for using BJS products
|
