Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Foreword Ronald V. Clarke; 1. Introduction Mike Hough and Mike Maxfield; 2. British Crime Survey after 25 years Mike Hough, Mike Maxfield, Bob Morris and Jon Simmons 3. The sting in the British Crime Survey tail: multiple victimizations Graham Farrell and Ken Pease 4. Understanding the link between victimization and offending: new reflections on an old idea Janet Lauritsen and John Laub 5. Development and key results from the first two waves of the Offending Crime and Justice Survey David Matz 6. The distribution of household property crime victimization: insights from the British Crime Survey Tim Hope 7. The nternational Crime Victims Survey and complementary measures of corruption and organized crime Jan van Dijk 8. The National Crime Victimization Survey at 34: looking back and looking ahead Michael Rand 9. Survey assessments of police performance Wesley G. Skogan 10. Survey assessments of police performance in the BCS Jonathan Allen 11. Public opinion and criminal justice: the British Crime Survey and beyond Mike Hough and Julian V. Roberts 12. The BCS and the fear of crime Jason Ditton and Stephen Farrall 13. Improving national crime surveys: with a focus upon strangely neglected offenders and their offences, including frauds, hi-tech crimes and handling stolen goods Mike Sutton 14. Deceptive evidence: challenges in measuring fraud Jacqueline Hoare; 15. Addressing the challenge of costs and error in victimization surveys: the potential of new technologies and methods David Cantor and James P. Lynch; 16. Surveying crime in the 21st century: summary and recommendations Mike Maxfield, Mike Hough and Pat Mayhew Appendix List of conference participants.