scholarly journals Measuring crime through victimization: Some methodological lessons from the ICVS

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 518-539
Author(s):  
Carmen Ródenas ◽  
Antonio Doval
Keyword(s):  
Crime Rate ◽  
International Crime ◽  
Reference Population ◽  
Household Size ◽  
Crime Victims ◽  
Sample Design ◽  
European Survey ◽  
Final Design ◽  
Victimization Rates

The objective of this study is to demonstrate that there are design errors in the International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS) that lead to biases in the estimates of victimization rates. This will be verified, firstly, by comparing the crime rate derived from the ICVS microdata with that based on the reference population and, secondly, examining the consequences of two ICVS methodological decisions: the use of individual weights and the re-weighting procedure in accordance with household size. These sample design failures, which generate distorted crime rankings, call for the need to make corrections both in the subsequent waves of the ICVS and in the final design of a future European survey.

scholarly journals Una encuesta de victimización en Málaga capital

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa García España ◽  
María José Benítez Jiménez ◽  
Fátima Pérez Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
International Crime ◽  
Crime Victims

El Observatorio de la delincuencia en Andalucía, financiado por la Fundación El Monte, ha realizado una encuesta de victimización en la ciudad de Málaga con el cuestionario propuesto por la UNICRI, International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS) que permite comparaciones a nivel europeo. Este estudio tiene una especial relevancia, porque su contenido también es comparado con la encuesta realizada en 1994 por la sección de Málaga del L.A.I.C. en la provincia, extrayendo sólo los datos referentes a Málaga capital. Los resultados hallados tras pasar la encuesta son de suma trascendencia. No sólo permiten responder a la hipótesis planteada, sino igualmente a otros muchos aspectos de interés.

scholarly journals Islam and Crime: The Moral Community of Muslims

1970 ◽  
pp. 111-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Hossein Serajzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Crime Rate ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
International Crime ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Islamic Countries ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Penal Law ◽  
Beliefs And Practice ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Islamic Belief

International crime statistics indicate that in Islamic countries crime rates are lower than in other countries. This feature of Islamic countries is most often explained by two factors: a) the relatively low level of development, which has a positive effect on crime rates, and b) the strictness of Islamic penal law. Providing some evidence, this article maintains that the first factor fails to explain properly the difference in the crime rates of Islamic and non-Islamic countries at a similar level of development. It also argues that the second explanation is a reductionist one. Following a Weberian approach, the article develops the argument that the content and structure of Islamic belief and practice is the dominant shared element among Islamic countries. It has given rise to a particular socio-cultural structure among Muslims, one of the impacts of which has been the low crime rate. Islamic beliefs and practice, therefore, are discussed as the main explanatory factor for the low crime rate in Islamic countries. (Keywords: religion, crime, development, Islam, Shari’a, Islamic law, Muslim attitudes.)

scholarly journals Un nuevo instrumento para la investigación criminológica

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo F.Aebri ◽  
Gordon Barclay ◽  
Jörg-Martin Jehle ◽  
Martin Killias
Keyword(s):  
International Crime ◽  
Crime Victims ◽  
Council Of Europe

Una investigación realizada en 36 estados miembros del Consejo de Europa ha permitido publicar una Colección Europea de Estadísticas de la Delincuencia y la Justicia Penal (1). Esta Colección permite comparar la información de carácter estadístico disponible en distintas áreas y, en particular, la manera en que esta información es recogida y las definiciones utilizadas en los distintos países. La información que aporta se compone de datos policiales sobre delitos, presuntos autores y costes, datos de las autoridades encargadas de la instrucción, datos de sentencias judiciales, datos penitenciarios que se recopilaron utilizando la Estadística Penal Anual del Consejo de Europa (Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics, SPACE) y el cuestionario utilizado para elaborar esta colección, y datos de victimación del International Crime Victims Survey, ICVS. Algunos miembros del grupo de expertos que dirigió la investigación presentan a continuación un breve resumen de la información que contiene la Colección y los principales resultados de algunos artículos que han utilizado esa información.

Criminal Victimization on a Caribbean Island

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate A. Painter
Keyword(s):  
Random Sample ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
International Crime ◽  
Crime Victims ◽  
National Crime Victimization Survey ◽  
Crime Victimization ◽  
Caribbean Island ◽  
Criminal Victimization ◽  
High Level

This paper reports results from the first national crime victimization survey carried out on a Caribbean island. Astratified random sample of 491 persons were interviewed, with a 90% response rate. Results were compared with those obtained in the International Crime Victims Survey for 10 countries. The prevalence and incidence of theft of vehicles, theft from vehicles, vehicle vandalism, robbery and personal theft were relatively low on the island. The prevalence and incidence of bicycle theft, burglary, attempted burglary, outside theft, assault/threats and sexual incidents were relatively high on the island. The probability of reporting a crime to the police was relatively low on the island, but confidence in the police was relatively high. Despite the relatively high level of crime on the island, fear of crime was relatively low.

Societal gender inequality and the gender gap in safety perceptions: Comparative evidence from the International Crime Victims Survey

2020 ◽  
pp. 147737082091972
Author(s):  
Ntasha Bhardwaj ◽  
Robert Apel
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Multilevel Models ◽  
International Crime ◽  
Crime Victims ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
Safety Perceptions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

This study considers whether societal gender inequality moderates the relationship between gender and perceptions of personal safety. Pooled 1992–2005 rounds of the International Crime Victims Survey, comprising more than 285,000 respondents from 75 countries, are used to estimate multilevel models of safety perceptions, with a cross-level interaction specified between gender and gender inequality. We find that the gender gap in safety perceptions, although statistically significant in all countries, is largest in countries exhibiting high gender equality and smallest in countries with high gender inequality. This is explained entirely by variation in men’s safety perceptions; male respondents perceive themselves as safer in a milieu of gender equality, but less safe in a milieu of gender inequality. In contrast, the safety perceptions of female respondents are uncorrelated with societal gender inequality.

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