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