The British Crime Survey: The First Ten Years

Mike Hough and Pat Mayhew

This article describes the origins of the British Crime Survey and its subsequent development. We present a selection of key findings, consider the impact the survey has achieved, some of the criticisms it has attracted, and look briefly at the future.
  

The British Crime Survey: the First Ten Years*

Pat Mayhew and Mike HoughHome Office Research and Planning Unit

ORIGINS

Surveys focusing on victimisation emerged in Britain in the seventies, notably the one in London by Sparks, Genn & Dodd (1977), which was set up in 1972 to tackle methodological issues. Crime surveys were also conducted in Sheffield in 1976 (see, for example, Bottoms et al 1987). The Home Office conducted a study of its own on victimisation of black and white residents in Manchester (Tuck & Southgate 1981). The impetus for this body of work...

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