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DEVELOPMENTS IN AUSTRALIAN CRIME VICTIMISATION SURVEYS. Types of Surveys. National Crime and Safety Survey (3 yearly - 2005) Personal Safety Survey (Violence) (irregular 2005) General Social Survey (irregular - 2006) National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Survey (irregular)
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Types of Surveys • National Crime and Safety Survey (3 yearly - 2005) • Personal Safety Survey (Violence) (irregular 2005) • General Social Survey (irregular - 2006) • National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Survey (irregular) • National Survey of Community Satisfaction of Policing (Qtrly) • ICVS (irregular) • IVAWS (irregular)
Crime and Safety Survey Offences • Collects information from households and individuals about experience of selected crimes, reporting behaviour to police and crime related risk factors • Robbery (break in, attempted break ins) • Theft of Motor Vehicles • Assault • Sexual Assault • Fear of crime • Neighbourhood crime problems
Crime and Safety Survey: Content • What problems from crime/public nuisance are there in neighbourhood? • How safe/unsafe do you feel at home by yourself during the day? • safe/unsafe at home by yourself after dark? • Did an offence occur? • How many times? • When/where did the most recent offence occur? • Weapon Used?
Content continued • Physically injured? • Saw the offender? • How many offenders? • Age/sex of offender? • Did you know the offender? • Location of offence? • Reactions of incident by victim? • Force/violence used? • Attempt to try to use/threaten to use violence against victim
Content continued • Time of day/day of week • Did you tell police about most offence? • Reason police not told? • How reported to police - in person, phone, etc • What did the offenders do? • Do you consider this to be a crime?
Survey Sample • Runs off the labour force survey • 54,000 persons • 27,000 households • 76% response rate (2002 survey) • 1 person for household crimes • all persons aged 15+ for personal crimes • all persons aged 18+ for sexual assault
Crime Statistics Survey Review • Strong demand for crime and safety survey data in Australia • Users have asked ABS to consider options to improve survey methods and adopt a more integrated approach to crime and safety surveys • Main issues for users are: • Freqency - broad annual headline indicators of crime • responsiveness - need to handle new and emerging areas of crime • Flexibility - accommodate core and optional modules to respond to emerging issues • Geography - small area data
Survey Review Findings • Current content of NCSS appears to be satisfactory • Sexual Assault and Family Violence flagged as key policy priority areas by government • Need to maintain time series • Flexibility • Incorporate new and emerging areas of crime • State/territory data as a minimum • Need for broad annual headline indicators of crime
Demand for new and emerging crimes • New and emerging content • Business victimisation (including e-crime) • Internet scams • Fraud (consumer, identity and superannuation fraud) • Other deception offences • Vandalism • Theft from Motor Vehicles
new and emerging crimes continued • Theft of mobile phones • Juvenile crime • Racially based assault • Risk factors to victimsation • more information about demographics of victims and offenders, relationship of victim to offender and location • more information on high risk population groups (indigenous, recent immigrants, people with mental illnesses, prisoners, homeless, etc) • model crime and safety data with other survey data or administrative data (e.g. police data)
Self reported crimes • interest in knowing about self reported crimes by offenders • similar to questions asked in our Indigenous survey • Indigenous statistics • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population • Indigenous people account for a small part of the population but per head of population have higher imprisonment rates, etc
Frequency • Annual headline indicators of crime • Indicators would help them to develop, implement and measure new policies and programs around fear of crime in the community and reduction in crime • Implement strategies for downstream effects on criminal justice system (courts and prisons) • Indicators would include a limited set of household and personal crimes, basic demographic data, perceptions of crime and safety, reporting to police • Police agencies have an interest in indicators to assist in operational policing strategies • Detailed characteristics to be collected less frequently
Where to from here with the review? • Further consultation with users to further understand specific user need • User needs will be factored into the ABS Household Survey Review Program to determine priorities for our future social statistics program (conducted during 2006) • Crime statistics will compete with other social statistics demands