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Article: Identity theft.(Bulletin Reports)(Brief article)
- Article from:
- The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) special report Identity Theft, 2005 contains data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) on identity theft victimization and its consequences. This document presents the first full year of data available after new questions about identity theft were added to the survey in July 2004. The NCVS defined identity theft as credit card thefts, thefts from existing accounts, misuse of personal information, and multiple types of identity theft during the same episode. Based on interviews with a nationally representative sample of 40,000 household residents, the report describes the age, race, and ethnicity of the household head; ...