The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey
Barry StalkerScottish Government
Content
• The SCVS 2006– Brief overview– Publications & data
• The new SCJS – Overview of design– Coverage– Reporting– Data access/User group– Capacity building
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
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)
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
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
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
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?
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
Scottish Crime & Victimisation Survey 2006
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