Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword, Ronald V. Clarke (Rutgers University, New Jersey)
1 Introduction, Mike Hough and Mike Maxfield
2 British Crime Survey after 25 years, Mike Hough, Mike Maxfield, Bob Morris and Jon Simmons
3 The sting in the British Crime Survey tail: multiple victimizations, Graham Farrell and Ken Pease
4 Understanding the link between victimization and offending: new reflections on an old idea, Janet Lauritsen and John Laub
5 Development and key results from the first two waves of the Offending Crime and Justice Survey, David Matz
6 The distribution of household property crime victimization: insights from the British Crime Survey, Tim Hope
7 The International Crime Victims Survey and complementary measures of corruption and organized crime, Jan van Dijk
8 The National Crime Victimization Survey at 34: looking back and looking ahead, Michael Rand
9 Survey assessments of police performance, Wesley G. Skogan
10 Survey assessments of police performance in the BCS, Jonathan Allen
11 Public opinion and criminal justice: the British Crime Survey and beyond, Mike Hough and Julian V. Roberts
12 The BCS and the fear of crime, Jason Ditton and Stephen Farrall
13 Improving national crime surveys: with a focus upon strangely neglected offenders and their offences, including frauds, hi-tech crimes and handling stolen goods, Mike Sutton
14 Deceptive evidence: challenges in measuring fraud, Jacqueline Hoare
15 Addressing the challenge of costs and error in victimization surveys: the potential of new technologies and methods, David Cantor and James P. Lynch
16 Surveying crime in the 21st century: summary and recommendations, Mike Maxfield, Mike Hough and Pat Mayhew
Appendix
List of conference participants
Papers in this volume were originally presented at a conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the British Crime Survey (BCS). Since its first sweep in 1982, the BCS has become an invaluable source of data for research and policy development. An introductory essay traces the survey's development, then summarizes its important substantive and methodological contributions. These are best known in Britain and the US, but findings from the BCS continue to influence criminological theory and practice in many countries. Chapters by a distinguished international group of scholars describe key findings of crime surveys more generally in a variety of research and policy areas: international comparisons of victimization; covariation of victimization and offending; using surveys to measure police performance; the impact of crime in different types of communities; attitudes to crime and justice; fear of crime; and the unequal distribution of risk. This important volume is of special interest as reviews of national crime statistics and responsible agencies are underway in the United States, and have recently been completed in the United Kingdom.
