Youth crime has fallen dramatically over the past three decades, with juvenile arrests at their lowest level since 1996. Yet serious and highly visible incidents involving large groups of young people are raising legitimate public concern. Responses to these “teen takeover” events require delicate balances between protecting public safety and holding young people accountable while […]

Presenters on this webinar from the Bureau of Justice Statistics will deliver a methodological overview on producing overall state estimates and demographic subgroup estimates from NCVS data using multivariate Bayesian small area estimation (SAE) models. This session will cover model formulation, the challenges of applying SAE techniques to victimization survey data, and the implications for […]

This session reveals new insight on emergent and understudied issues from economic abuse, financial insecurity, tech-facilitated violence, to sexual harassment. It interrogates systemic inequality as a root cause and consequence of intimate partner violence, and highlights economic support as a pathway to survivor safety. The webinar is part of a series hosted by The National Health […]