JVQ
The Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ) is a comprehensive questionnaire designed to gather information from young people and their caretakers on a broad range of victimizations across the full age spectrum of childhood. It can enhance the assessment of any child or adolescent by providing a quantified description of all major forms of offenses against youth.
Either youth or parents can complete the questionnaire. It covers victimizations that are unique to childhood, such as neglect and statutory rape, as well as crimes that can occur to youth as well as to adults, such as assault and theft.
The JVQ includes state-of-the-art techniques for assessing very sensitive victimization, using specific questions to target victimizations by parents, peers, and other perpetrators that are less likely to be identified through generic questioning, and behaviorally-specific wording that clearly defines the types of incidents children should report.
Victimization items:
- Self-report version
- Complete Interview with follow-up
- Administration & scoring manual
- Caregiver version
- Adult retrospective version
For permission to use, contact:
Kelly Foster
Senior Assistant
Crimes Against Children Research Center
University of New Hampshire
126 Horton Social Science Center
Durham, NH 03824
(603) 862-4869
kelly.foster@unh.edu
For technical questions, contact:
Sherry Hamby
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
sherry.hamby@unc.edu
or
Dick Ormrod
University of New Hampshire
rormrod@unh.edu
