National Juvenile Online Victimization Incidence Study (NJOV)
NJOV aims to collect data on the characteristics and prevalence of technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation crimes in the United States of America over time. The study used a nationally representative sample of law enforcement agencies, some of which were repeatedly sampled across all four waves. Wave 1 (NJOV-1) pertained to arrests for technology-facilitated crimes (e.g., sex offenders using the Internet to meet minors, solicitations to undercover investigators posing online as minors, downloading of child pornography) that occurred between July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2001; Wave 2 (NJOV-2) pertained to arrests during 2006. NJOV-3 collected data about technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation crimes ending in arrest in 2009 from over 2,000 agencies. NJOV-4 collected data from 2019. Each wave consisted of a mail survey and a telephone interview.
Study design
Community or village panel
Number of participants at first data collection
2,128 (agencies - NJOV-3)
Age at first data collection
Not applicable
Participant year of birth
Not applicable
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
Law enforcement agencies in the United States of America.
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2000 (NJOV-1)
2006 (NJOV-2)
2009 (NJOV-3)
2019 (NJOV-4)
Primary Institutions
University of New Hampshire (UNH)
Links
cola.unh.edu/family-research-laboratory/projects/national-juvenile-online-victimization-study-n-jov
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Interview – phone
- Self-report questionnaire – paper or computer assisted
- Interviews or focus groups
- None
- None
Engagement
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