Collaborative Research: Violent Victimization in the U.S.: The Vulnerability of Minorities and Women Over Time

在美国，黑人和拉丁裔比白人更容易受到暴力侵害，女性比男性更容易受到亲密伴侣的暴力。很可能，经济劣势在解释受害风险方面发挥了关键作用。然而，暴力受害与种族、民族、性别和经济劣势之间的关系仍然知之甚少。本研究将结合1973年至2008年全国犯罪调查和全国犯罪受害调查超过650万次访谈的数据。然后，该项目将使用先进的统计建模技术来研究非拉丁裔黑人、非拉丁裔白人和拉丁裔男性和女性在三十多年中遭受暴力侵害的脆弱性的异同。这项研究将考察暴力的总体受害风险，以及陌生人、熟人和亲密伴侣的暴力风险，众所周知，这些风险因种族、民族和性别以及时间的推移而有所不同。该项目将发表一系列研究论文，评估随着社会条件的变化，种族、民族、性别和经济劣势结合在一起，解释随着时间的推移受害风险的复杂方式，从而确定构成美国生活重要特征的少数民族和妇女不断变化的脆弱性。该项目的结果将具有重要的政策影响。例如，如果我们发现黑人和拉丁裔在经济衰退期间更容易受到暴力侵害，这可能说明经济援助计划在减少受害方面的潜在好处。如果不同种族和民族在暴力侵害妇女方面的差异与贫困有关，这将成为受害者援助方案的重点。由于该项目包括一个跨学科小组和一个教育部分，它将促进社会科学和统计学方面的本科生和研究生的跨领域培训。

In the United States, blacks and Latinos are more vulnerable than whites to violent victimization and women are more vulnerable than men to violence by intimate partners. It is likely that economic disadvantage plays a key role in explaining victimization risk. Yet, the relationships between violent victimization and race, ethnicity, gender, and economic disadvantage remain poorly understood. The present research will combine data on more than 6.5 million interviews from the National Crime Survey and the National Crime Victimization Survey for the years 1973 through 2008. The project then will use advanced statistical modeling techniques to study similarities and differences in the vulnerability of non-Latino black, non-Latino white, and Latino men and women to violent victimization over more than three decades. The research will examine victimization risks for violence generally, as well as risks for violence by strangers, acquaintances, and intimate partners, which are known to vary across race, ethnicity and gender, as well as over time. The project will produce a series of research papers assessing the complex ways that race, ethnicity, gender, and economic disadvantage combine to explain victimization risks over time, as social conditions change, and thus will identify changing vulnerabilities of minorities and women that constitute an important feature of life in America. The results of the project will have important policy implications. If, for example, we find that blacks and Latinos are more vulnerable to violent victimization during economic downturns, this could speak to potential benefits of economic assistance programs for reducing victimization. If differences in violence against women across race and ethnic groups are linked to poverty, this would inform the focus of victim-assistance programs. Because this project includes an interdisciplinary team and includes an educational component, it will promote cross-field training of both undergraduates and graduate students in the social sciences and in statistics.