Survey of Sexual Victimization (SSV)

The Survey of Sexual Victimization, formerly known as the Survey of Sexual Violence (SSV), is an administrative data collection based on allegations and substantiated incidents of sexual victimization by other inmates/youth or staff that are reported to adult correctional and juvenile justice authorities. Additional information is collected on substantiated incidents on the victim(s), perpetrator(s), characteristics of the incident, and outcomes. The collection includes an enumeration of allegations and substantiated incidents reported to state prison systems; state juvenile correctional systems; the federal prison system; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); the U.S. military; and a sample of jail jurisdictions, privately operated adult prisons and jails, facilities in Indian country, and local and private juvenile justice facilities. Because the methodology changes slightly each year and varies between youth and adult collections, see the methodology section in each report for additional details.