Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Victim Service Provision: Challenges, Innovations, and Lessons Learned, 8 U.S. counties, 2022-2023 (ICPSR 39019)
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Hannah Feeney, RTI International;
Rebecca Pfeffer, RTI International
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39019.v2
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The COVID-19 pandemic had a disproportionate impact on victims of crime and community-based victim service provider (VSP) agencies were tasked with maintaining accessibility to their critical services. This research study sought to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on service provisions for victims of gender-based violence, including survivors of sexual assault/abuse, IPV, or sex trafficking in eight U.S. counties that vary in geography, urbanicity, and sociopolitical settings.
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Access to these data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement, specify the reason for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.
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The specific objectives of the study were to document and understand (1) the challenges posed by the pandemic -including related societal changes, such as social distancing, court closures, and legislative mandates; (2) how agencies pivoted to address these challenges; and (3) which innovations were successful in ways that warranted lasting changes in practice. Also investigated was which changes in practice were discontinued as COVID-19 restrictions eased and how it was determined that these changes were not worth sustaining beyond the pandemic.
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A parallel mixed-methods design for multilevel data was used in which the project conducted state and local policy assessments, web-based surveys of all victim service providers in each project county, and eight in-depth agency case studies to explore more deeply the impacts of COVID-19 on individual agencies.
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A sampling approach stratified by geographic region (West, South, Midwest, and Northeast), urbanicity, and presence of gender based violence victim service providers was used across 8 U.S. counties.
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Rural and urban county level sites in Washington, Texas, Illinois, and Massachusetts.
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The data includes variables about victim service providers and their urbanicity, services provided, staffing, service populations, victims served, location served, mask requirements, and funding mechanisms.
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2025-07-10
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.