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Enhancing Crime and Victimisation Surveys for Improved Community Safety

Explore the various types and content of Australian crime victimisation surveys, including important offenses, survey samples, statistics, and the need for new and emerging crime data. Enhance survey methods and incorporate more detailed demographic information.

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Enhancing Crime and Victimisation Surveys for Improved Community Safety

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  1. DEVELOPMENTS IN AUSTRALIAN CRIME VICTIMISATION SURVEYS

  2. 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)

  3. 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

  4. 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?

  5. 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

  6. 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?

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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)

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

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