Details

Editor

• Feeney, Hannah [Browse]
• Pfeffer, Rebecca [Browse]

Related name

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 39019. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 39019

Restrictions note

Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

• 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.
• 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.

Type of data

survey data

Time and place of event

Data collected 2022-11 through 2023-09

Funding information

Sponsored by United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice 15PNIJ-21-GG-00997-NONF

Methodology note

Rural and urban county level sites in Washington, Texas, Illinois, and Massachusetts.

Contents

• Study-Level Files
• Survey Data
• Interview Guide

Provenance

2025-07-10 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: Performed consistency checks. Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Cite as

Feeney, Hannah, and Pfeffer, Rebecca. Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Victim Service Provision: Challenges, Innovations, and Lessons Learned, 8 U.S. counties, 2022-2023. [distributor], 2025-07-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39019.v1

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