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Page 1: The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey Barry Stalker Scottish Government

The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey

Barry StalkerScottish Government

Page 2: The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey Barry Stalker Scottish Government

Content

• The SCVS 2006– Brief overview– Publications & data

• The new SCJS – Overview of design– Coverage– Reporting– Data access/User group– Capacity building

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Scottish Crime & Victimisation Survey 2006

• Pre-selected sample, representative of (private households) in Scotland

• Fieldwork June – December 2007

• 4,988 achieved interviews

• Face-to-face, CAPI/CASI

• Victim Form: fixed recall period, financial year 2005-06

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Scottish Crime & Victimisation Survey 2006

• Publications– Main report (27 Sept 07)– Drug prevalence report (27 Sept 07)– Domestic abuse report (27 Nov 07)– http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Research/Research/17692/SocialResearchPu

bs/CriminalJustice

• Data– now in ESDS archive (with Technical Report)

Page 5: The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey Barry Stalker Scottish Government

Scottish Crime & Justice SurveyDesign

• Pre-selected sample, representative at Scotland and Police Force Area level

• Face-to-face, CAPI/CASI

• Target sample of 16,000 interviews per annum

• Continuous fieldwork (/rolling vf reference period)

• Modularisation of questionnaire

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Scottish Crime & Justice SurveyCoverage

• Victim Form (based on BCS but following Scots Criminal Law)

• Fear of Crime

• Scottish Criminal Justice system– Police; Procurator Fiscal;

• Community sentences & prisons

• Illicit drug prevalence

• Domestic abuse/sexual victimisation

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Scottish Crime & Justice SurveyReporting

• Standard publications– Main report; Drug Prevalence; Domestic

Abuse/Sexual Victimisation – late summer 2009; 2010…

• Briefing papers– Potential for specific ad hoc papers on issues

of policy interest– Conducted in-house/by SCCJR-CJ Quest

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Scottish Crime & Justice SurveyData access/user group

• Data access– Non-disclosive dataset – ESDS autumn 2009;

2010…– SG data access panel for potentially

disclosive data (in development)

• SCJS User group– Forum for engagement with users external to

SG?– Includes public sector organisations &

academia?

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Scottish Crime & Justice SurveyCapacity building

• Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research (SCCJR): CJ Quest

• Funding 1 PhD studentship, through ESRC joint funded PhD scheme– The experience of victims– Includes 1 month placement with SG– In development (to be confirmed)

• Also support coverage of SCJS in MSc Social Research methods course at Edinburgh University

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Scottish Crime & Victimisation Survey 2006

Any questions?