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Appendix E: Other Victimization Surveys: International and U.S. State and Local Experience
Appendix E: Other Victimization Surveys: International and U.S. State and Local Experience
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The survey design features of selected international victimization surveys -- including the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) -- are summarized in Table E-1.
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h Swiss crime survey, which was used as a basis for the International Crime Victimization Survey; see Killias et al.
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E–1 BRITISH CRIME SURVEY The British Crime Survey (BCS) measures criminal victimization among the population age 16 and older in England and Wales; Scotland was included in the earliest versions of the survey, but it now conducts its own victimization survey (as does Northern Ireland)
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The OCJS is particularly oriented at measuring juvenile delinquency and so relaxes the BCS age constraint, collecting information from respondents as young as 10 years old and oversampling persons ages 10–25 so that they represent roughly half of the basic sample. The OCJS is designed as a longitudinal study, with multiple contacts of the same people, in order to permit measures of trajectories of violence within the study period.
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. E–1.c Reviews of British Crime Statistics As part of a larger review of official statistics collected in the United Kingdom and their effectiveness in meeting the needs of users, a Statistics Commission (2006)
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These steps include: • changing the definition of violent crime; • greater distinction between British Crime Survey results and police recorded crime data and the uses for which each source is appropriate; • ensuring regular reviews of statistical classifications.
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2.7 The Home Office should continue to publish police recorded crime data and the BCS together. 2.8 We recommend that national crime statistics should be published annually and include a full commentary on the state of crime, drawing on all appropriate data sources.
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"We believe [the BCS] should remain in the Home Office because as well as being a source for the national crime statistics, it is one of the most important research tools and sources of information for the Home Office to manage the crime problem" (Smith, 2006:6)
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. E–2 INTERNATIONAL CRIME VICTIMIZATION SURVEY Administered by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
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The ICVS methodology page indicates that the sampling for face-to-face interviews "was generally hierarchical," starting "with identifying administrative areas within the city, followed by a step-by-step procedure aiming at identifying areas, streets, blocks, households and finally the household member aged over 16 whose birthday is next." E–3 VICTIMIZATION SURVEYS AS PART OF A BROADER SOCIAL SURVEY: CANADA AND AUSTRALIA Some countries that do not have standalone surveys of victimization still gather related information through major supplements to other, more omnibus surveys. Two examples are Canada and Australia.
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A Statistics Canada web page describing the survey's methodology notes that the RDD approach excludes persons in households without telephones (estimated as representing "less than 2% of the target population" of Canadians 15 years of age or older) and persons with only cellular telephone service ("again, this group makes up a very small proportion of the population, less than 3%")
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in 2000 identified local victimization surveys as a high priority. Specifically, the RFP indicated that "SACs receiving funds under this theme must agree to use the BJS developed Crime Victimization Survey software, which can be easily modified to meet State/local priorities and requirements" (Alaska Justice Statistical Analysis Center, 2002:1)
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E–4.d Minnesota The Minnesota Crime Survey is one of the few state victimization surveys to be fielded multiple times on a semiregular basis (1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, and 2005)
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Comparing this survey to the state victimization survey, Haddon and Christenson (2005:18–19) note that the separate study's findings about the likelihood of a respondent's having been raped sometime during her lifetime were "not unlike those of the 2004 victimization survey"; however, the standalone survey suggested a much lower level of reporting to the police.
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