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The British Crime Survey or BCS is a systematic victim study, carried out by the Home Office, that seeks to measure the amount of crime in England and Wales by asking 50,000 people aged 16 and over, living in private households, about the crimes they have experienced in the last year. A victim study ( or victimisation survey) is a survey, such as the British Crime Survey, that asks a sample of people which crimes have been committed against them over a fixed period of time and whether or not they have been reported to the police. ...
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The British Crime Survey was first carried out in 1982 and further surveys were carried out in 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2001.
Since April 2001, BCS interviews have been carried out on a continuous basis and results from that point are now reported by financial years.
40% of crime reported to the police does not actually appear in the official crime statistics as the police may regard certain reported offences as too trivial, not to be law violations or simply to be false accusations. Factors affecting the reporting and recording of criminal statistics: The public reporting of crime as less than 10% of crime is directly observed or uncovered by the police. The British Crime Survey found that people do not report crime which they define as too petty.
The police play a crucial role in deciding which complaints by the public should be categorised as crime and the acts that should be defined as legal. If the police decide a crime is not a crime or is to trivial to be considered a crime it goes uninvestigated.
The Media From a marxist point of view the media has an applifying nature through television reports.
Example of statistics gathered by the BCS:
In 2003/04 the number of robbery offences in England and Wales was for people aged 16 and over was around 283,000.
The BCS does not measure robbery offences among victims under 16 years.
Home office statistics:
Violent crime accounted for 14% of all recorded crime yet over the past five years violent crime has fallen by 22%, domestic burglary is down by 39%, and vehicle crime is down by 26%.
In 1997, there were over 1.6 million domestic burglaries in England and Wales. Burglary is the crime most commonly referred to Victim Support, with nearly half a million victims of burglary being offered help each year
Problems with BCS Exclusion undercounts certain types of crime especially fraud and corporate crime. The BCS seemed to give the impression that all individuals shared similar risks of being victims of crime. The BCS suggested that victims of crime were most likely to be male and young.
Further reading
Investigating crime and deviance - Stephen Moore
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A victim study ( or victimisation survey) is a survey, such as the British Crime Survey, that asks a sample of people which crimes have been committed against them over a fixed period of time and whether or not they have been reported to the police. ...
External links - British Crime Survey methodology
- British Crime Survey questionnaires
- Crime in England and Wales 2004/2005
- Long-term trends - British Crime Survey data
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