Survey of Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Justice Facilities, United States, 2017 (ICPSR 39263)
Version Date: Mar 26, 2025 View help for published
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United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39263.v1
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The Survey of Sexual Victimization (SSV) is part of BJS's National Prison Rape Statistics Program, which gathers mandated data on the incidence and prevalence of sexual victimization in adult correctional and juvenile justice facilities, under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA; P.L. 108-79). This is an administrative data collection based on allegations of sexual victimization by other adjudicated juveniles or staff that are reported to authorities. The collection includes an enumeration of allegations and substantiated incidents reported to juvenile justice systems operated by states and the District of Columbia and tribal juvenile facilities and a sample of local and private juvenile justice facilities.
In 2017, correctional administrators reported 3,592 allegations of sexual victimization. This total contains all allegations of five types of victimization measured by the SSV - youth-on-youth nonconsensual sexual acts, abusive sexual contacts, and sexual harassment as well as staff-on-youth sexual misconduct and sexual harassment. Of those allegations, 599 were substantiated after investigation.
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Names of individual facilities are not included for analysis. Only names of consolidated systems (e.g., state central reporters) are retained on the file.
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State juvenile systems received the SSV-5 form. All other locally or privately operated juvenile facilities received the SSV-6 form. Each respondent provided data on the number of reported allegations of sexual victimization for either their entire systems, as was the case for state juvenile systems, or for their facilities, as was the case for other locally or privately operated juvenile facilities.
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A census of the 50 state central reporters and facilities that report separately was taken from the JRFC frame. A census of all 21 tribal juvenile facilities was taken from the Jails in Indian Country (JIC) frame. Samples were collected of locally and privately operated juvenile facilities. A sample of 530 locally or privately operated juvenile justice facilities was drawn from the frame of the Juvenile Residential Facility Census (JRFC) and the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP). The largest locally-and privately-operated facilities in each state were sampled with certainty. 37 locally operated facilities and 48 privately-operated facilities were selected with certainty as the largest in each state. Then, detention facilities and large local and private facilities were sampled with certainty due to size. 31 locally operated, 52 privately-operated facilities, and 47 detention facilities were selected as certainties due to size. There were 7 non-certainty strata: 4 strata for detention facilities based on region (Midwest, Northeast, South, West), local non-commitment facilities, local commitment facilities, and the remaining private facilities. Facilities were selected in each of the non-certainty strata by serpentine-sorting by region, two-digit state code, facility type, and the number of beds, then were selected with probability proportional to size. Final stratum sizes were: 41 Midwest detention facilities, 11 Northeast detention facilities, 37 Southern detention facilities, 29 Western detention facilities, 5 local non-commitment facilities, 28 local commitment facilities, 164 private facilities.
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All juvenile justice facilities in the United States.
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Self-enumerated forms
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All state central reporters and facilities that report separately and all tribal juvenile facilities responded to the SSV. Of the active (facilities that were not closed or out of scope) locally operated facilities, 86% responded. Of the active privately-operated facilities, 70% responded. Of the active detention centers, 83% responded.
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2025-03-26
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2025-03-26 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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Initial sampling weights are stored in the SAMPLE_WGT variable. The nonresponse weights are stored in the NR_FACTOR variable. Final weights adjusting for facilities who did not respond within strata - calculated as the product of sampling weight, nonresponse weight, and active status indicated by a value of "1" - are included in the variable FINAL_WGT.
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