Update: Upon reaching Clan Tier 3 and becoming a vassal I was able to successfully initiate a raid without incurring a crash.
As an aside I have noticed that the text for raiding a village is not complete.When choosing the raid village option the message states, "Raiding this village will cause a war with ." It does not say who you are causing a war with. Since I've never read this line of text before crashing, it is possible this missing text could have always been in the game. In any case on the improbable chance no one has mentioned it there you go.