Introduction
Until recently, researchers studying how family and community factors influence violent victimization among youth1 faced a significant hurdle: insufficient data. As a result, the link between these factors and violent victimization remained largely unexamined. Now, however, because of a special release of National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), researchers can explore this important issue in a new light. For the first time, factors associated with violent victimization are receiving the same critical attention that has been focused on violent offending. Drawing on newly available NCVS data, this Bulletin offers a unique analysis of how family and community characteristics affect violent victimization among U.S. youth ages 12–17.
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