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

在美国，黑人和拉丁美洲人比白人更容易受到暴力侵害，妇女比男子更容易受到亲密伴侣的暴力侵害。经济上的不利地位很可能在解释受害风险方面起着关键作用。然而，暴力受害与种族、族裔、性别和经济劣势之间的关系仍然知之甚少。目前的研究将结合联合收割机的数据超过650万次采访，从全国犯罪调查和全国犯罪受害者调查，从1973年到2008年。然后，该项目将使用先进的统计建模技术来研究三十多年来非拉丁美洲黑人，非拉丁美洲白色和拉丁美洲男性和女性暴力受害的脆弱性的相似性和差异。该研究将审查一般暴力受害风险，以及陌生人、熟人和亲密伴侣的暴力风险，已知这些风险因种族、族裔和性别以及时间而异。该项目将产生一系列研究论文，评估种族、民族、性别和经济劣势联合收割机的复杂方式，以解释随着社会条件的变化，随着时间的推移，受害风险，从而将确定少数民族和妇女不断变化的脆弱性，构成美国生活的一个重要特征。该项目的结果将产生重要的政策影响。例如，如果我们发现黑人和拉丁美洲人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对减少受害的潜在好处。如果不同种族和族裔群体对妇女的暴力行为的差异与贫困有关，这将为受害者援助方案的重点提供信息。由于该项目包括一个跨学科小组，并包括一个教育部分，它将促进对社会科学和统计学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.