Choosing and Using Statistical Sources in Criminology: What Can the Crime Survey for England and Wales Tell Us?

Tilley, Nick; Tseloni, Andromachi

doi:10.1017/s1472669616000219

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“…It is important to consider this in light of some limitations of this study, not least those associated with the use of victimisation surveys. The Crime Survey for England and Wales remains an internationally recognised source for crime statistics [ 46 ] and, unlike police recorded crime statistics, holds the designation of official statistics in England and Wales from the National Statistics Authority [ 47 ]. While victimisation survey data are generally accepted in criminology to improve substantially on police-recorded crime data as a measure of crime levels, survey data are not without its own limitations e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

The socioeconomic distribution of alcohol-related violence in England and Wales

Bryant

Lightowlers

2021

PLoS ONE

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Inequalities in alcohol-related health harms have been repeatedly identified. However, the socioeconomic distribution of alcohol-related violence (violence committed by a person under the influence of alcohol)–and of subtypes such as alcohol-related domestic violence–remains under-examined. To examine this, data are drawn from nationally representative victimisation survey, the Crime Survey for England and Wales, from years 2013/14 to 2017/18. Socioeconomic status specific incidence and prevalence rates for alcohol-related violence (including subtypes domestic, stranger, and acquaintance violence) were created. Binomial logistic regressions were performed to test whether the likelihood of experiencing these incidents was affected by socioeconomic status when controlling for a range of pre-established risk factors associated with violence victimisation. Findings generally show lower socioeconomic groups experience higher prevalence rates of alcohol-related violence overall, and higher incidence and prevalence rates for alcohol-related domestic and acquaintance violence. Binomial logistic regression results show that the likelihood of experiencing these types of violence is affected by a person’s socioeconomic status–even when other risk factors known to be associated with violence are held constant. Along with action to address environmental and economic drivers of socioeconomic inequality, provision of publicly funded domestic violence services should be improved, and alcohol pricing and availability interventions should be investigated for their potential to disproportionately benefit lower socioeconomic groups.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The socioeconomic distribution of alcohol-related violence in England and Wales

Bryant

Lightowlers

2021

PLoS ONE

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“…Although these figures are important barometer of societal tensions between groups, criminologists have long argued that the statistics produced by police are insufficient to paint a complete picture to understand both general and hate crime patterns. Existing criminological literature illustrates a number of limitations of police recorded crime data such as non-uniform recording practices across police forces, improvements, and changes in police recording practices over time, and changes in legislation and classification of offense types (Maguire, 2007;Tilley & Tseloni, 2016). In relation to hate crimes, these data sources are incomplete as at least half of all hate victims do not report their victimization (Williams & Tregidga, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Antisemitism on Twitter: Collective Efficacy and the Role of Community Organisations in Challenging Online Hate Speech

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Williams

Burnap

et al. 2020

Social Media + Society

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In this article, we conduct a comprehensive study of online antagonistic content related to Jewish identity posted on Twitter between October 2015 and October 2016 by UK-based users. We trained a scalable supervised machine learning classifier to identify antisemitic content to reveal patterns of online antisemitism perpetration at the source. We built statistical models to analyze the inhibiting and enabling factors of the size (number of retweets) and survival (duration of retweets) of information flows in addition to the production of online antagonistic content. Despite observing high temporal variability, we found that only a small proportion (0.7%) of the content was antagonistic. We also found that antagonistic content was less likely to disseminate in size or survive for a longer period. Information flows from antisemitic agents on Twitter gained less traction, while information flows emanating from capable and willing counter-speech actors—that is, Jewish organizations—had a significantly higher size and survival rates. This study is the first to demonstrate that Sampson’s classic sociological concept of collective efficacy can be observed on social media (SM). Our findings suggest that when organizations aiming to counter harmful narratives become active on SM platforms, their messages propagate further and achieve greater longevity than antagonistic messages. On SM, counter-speech posted by credible, capable and willing actors can be an effective measure to prevent harmful narratives. Based on our findings, we underline the value of the work by community organizations in reducing the propagation of cyberhate and increasing trust in SM platforms.

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“…In England and Wales overall rates of crime and crime types are measured by the Crime Survey of England and Wales and Police recorded crime statistics (Tilley and Tseloni, 2016). Measurement is not without its problems (Maguire, 2012) but there is a recognition that over the last decade there has been a discernible shift in levels and patterns of crime (House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, 2018).…”

Section: Changing Patterns Of Crimementioning

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A police service in transformation: implications for women police officers

Brown

Silvestri

2019

Police Practice and Research

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This paper presents an overview of current trends besetting the police service in England and Wales, including the reduction of resources through austerity pressures, changing patterns of crime such as rises in cyber related offences, greater victim focus, the introduction of graduate entry and changes in political accountability through the newly elected Police and Crime Commissioners. Secondary analysis of data enabled an assessment of the degree to which these impacts the employment and deployment of women in policing. As the gender ratio changes and reforms facilitate styles of policing with greater emphasis on the ethic of care it might be expected this will reflect more feminine values. The conclusion drawn is that the impacts of feminisation are somewhat overstated and remain rather fragile.

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Choosing and Using Statistical Sources in Criminology: What Can the Crime Survey for England and Wales Tell Us?

Cited by 21 publications

References 34 publications

The socioeconomic distribution of alcohol-related violence in England and Wales

The socioeconomic distribution of alcohol-related violence in England and Wales

Antisemitism on Twitter: Collective Efficacy and the Role of Community Organisations in Challenging Online Hate Speech

A police service in transformation: implications for women police officers

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