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ESDS Crime data resources:
quantitative and qualitative
Dr. Sharon Bolton, UK Data Archive
National Centre for Research Methods Festival, 6 July 2010
ESDS overview
• National data archiving, dissemination and support service, established 2003
• Jointly supported by: – Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)– Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
• Brought together existing organisations as partners: – UK Data Archive (UKDA) – Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey
Research (CCSR) – Manchester Information and Associated – Services (MIMAS)– Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
What does ESDS do?
• access and support for key economic and social data
• distributed service, bringing together centres of expertise in data creation, dissemination, preservation and use
• provides seamless, easy access to a range of disparate resources for UK HE and FE sectors
• core archiving services plus four specialist data services
ESDS services
• ESDS Government – Large-scale government surveys
• ESDS International– Multi-nation aggregate databanks and survey data
• ESDS Longitudinal – Major UK surveys following individuals over time
• ESDS Qualidata– Range of multimedia qualitative data sources (in-
depth and semi-structured interviews, focus groups, oral histories, diaries, mixed methods data, audio and video)
• find out more at www.esds.ac.uk
What kinds of data support criminological research?
• not just crime counts or direct experience of crime, though this is important
– community and citizenship– lifestyles; youth and school surveys– social policy– emerging problems: human trafficking,
terrorism– quantitative, qualitative, microdata,
macrodata– any more?
• ESDS resources wide-ranging
How do I find crime data at ESDS?
• Search the ESDS catalogue: www.esds.ac.uk
• Browse by subject ‘crime and law enforcement’
• Keyword search on crime-related terms will find individual questions within a larger survey
• Documentation online – read reports and questionnaires
• Crime theme resource - searching guide
Browsing by subject
Keyword search
Quantitative resources
• British Crime Survey (supported by ESDS Government service)
• Other quantitative surveys:– SN 5807: Arrestee Survey, 2003-2006
– SN 4665: Measuring the Fear of Crime with Greater Accuracy, 2002
– SN 5300: Crowd Dynamics, Policing and Hooliganism at Euro 2004
Quantitative resources - longitudinal
• GN 33360: Offending, Crime and Justice Survey (OCJS)
• SN 4800: Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime: Waves One to Four, 1997-2001 (ESYTC)
Quantitative resources – cross-national
• Eurostat New Cronos database: homicide, violent crime, robbery, burglary, motor vehicle theft, drug trafficking, police, prisons
• World Bank World/Africa Development Indicators: crime and corruption, various categories
• survey microdata: Eurobarometer series
• supported by ESDS International: http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/
Qualitative resources
• SN 4581: Gender Difference, Anxiety and the Fear of Crime, 1995
• SN 5314: Multilateral Policing in Africa: its Nature and Socio-Political Impact in Uganda and Sierra Leone, 2003-2005
• SN 5274: Context and Motive in the Perpetuation of Racial Harassment and Violence in North Staffordshire, 2004
• SN 6356: Attitudes in Russia to Social and Political Aspects of Human Trafficking, 2007
• SN 6283: Co-operation or Contest? Inter-Agency Relationships in Police Custody Areas, 2007
Learning and teaching resources I
• British Crime Survey teaching datasets (BCS covered by ESDS Government)
• X4L SDiT: freely downloadable classroom resource to demonstrate how survey data can be used in teaching, also used subset of BCS: – http://x4l.data-archive.ac.uk/
• Resources by theme: crime and social control, health, research methods, qualitative methods
X4L SDiT resource
Learning and teaching resources II
• thematic guide to crime and social control data: http://www.esds.ac.uk/themes/crime/introduction.asp
• video guides: searching, downloading data
• case studies (fear of crime, weapon carrying, attitudes to government crime control)
• comprehensive links to resources held at ESDS and elsewhere
ESDS crime and social control theme
Learning and teaching resources III
• qualitative methodologies:http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/support/
teaching.asp
• teaching packs:– diverse interview types (semi-structured, life
stories, oral histories)– non-interview methods (diaries, focus
groups, visual methods)– re-using qualitative data– case studies on how data have been re-used
Qualitative teaching packs
Enabling secondary use of crime-related data
• how can ‘sensitive’ data be archived for secondary use?
• guidance on data management and ethicshttp://www.data-archive.ac.uk/sharing/confidential.asp
• careful use of anonymisation techniques
• restricting access for whole or part of study
• contact us when you start your project: help@esds.ac.uk
Data management
www.data-archive.ac.uk
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