Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities Reported by Youth, 2012

Date

2013

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Bureau of Justice Statistics

Abstract

Description

Between February 2012 and September 2012, the Bureau of Justice Statistics completed the second National Survey of Youth in Custody (NSYC-2) in 273 state-owned or -operated juvenile facilities and 53 locally or privately operated facilities that held adjudicated youth under state contract. The survey was conducted by Westat (Rockville, MD), under a cooperative agreement with BJS. It was administered to 8,707 youth sampled from at least one facility in every state and the District of Columbia.

Keywords

Statistics, Victimization, juvenile

Citation

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http://hdl.handle.net/11212/419
 http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/svjfry12.pdf

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