Ways of Measuring Crime- Victimisation Studies

These involve asking individuals about crimes that have been against them over a certain pediod of time. They are designed to overcome the shortcoming of the under-reporting of crime to offical agencies and reveal some of the dark figure.

Some Examples are:

CSEW/ BCS:

They used nearly 50,000 interviews, the sampling frame is the Small Users Postcode Adress File.

Findings:

• 2% decrease in crime
• men have a 24% risk of being a victim of crime
• People in deprived areas are more likely to be victims of crime.
• Violent and property crimes had fallen

Islington Crime Survey:

They used 1,600 people in 1990 In an inner city…