School of Sociology and Social Policy

  Do victimisation survey data provide a more accurate picture of crime and crime trends than police recorded crime?       Order Description Crime statistics Historical perspective: contexts, uses and pluralisation Orientations and components Constructing official statistics (police recorded crime (PRC)) Dark and grey figures Reporting and recording rates Constructing victimisation data (Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW)) Dark and grey figures Counting violent domestic crime against women PRC or CSEW? Crime trends – the latest The problem with fraud Crime rates, ‘crime flux’ and a strategy for reducing residential burglary Police recorded crime (‘criminal statistics’) British Crime Survey (1982) Crime Survey for England and Wales (2012) Local victimisation surveys Islington Crime Survey (1986) Domestic violence and child abuse Local victimization surveys Feminist survey research Crimes against businesses Commercial victimisation/business crime surveys International crime victim surveys Other sources Accident, injury and mortality statistics Police incident logs