National Crime Victimization Survey: Crime Against People With Disabilities, 2007
October 1, 2009 This report, administered by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and by BJS statisticians, Michael R. Rand and Erika Harrell, Ph.D., are the first estimates of crime against people with disabilities measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The NCVS adopted questions from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey to identify respondents who had a disability. The NCVS questions identified six types of disabilities: sensory, physical, cognitive functioning, self-care, go-outside-the-home, and employment.The report focuses on the victimization experiences of persons with disabilities, including comparisons to persons without . . .
