Crime Surveys User Conference 2024

Are you interested in research on crime? Do you want to know the latest developments in crime data from UK social surveys?

This free conference, organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics, Scottish Government and Home Office, will be held in London at Lift, Islington on 6 February 2024. Please note this is an in person event, there will be no option to join online.

The user conference brings data producers and data users together to share updates on the development of the surveys and to showcase research that is being carried out using the data.

We are very pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for this year's conference is Stephen Farrall, who is a Professor of Criminology in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham, who will discuss his paper Exploring the individual-level effects of Thatcherism on crime over the life-course: Evidence from strategically-paired cohort studies.

Attendees will hear a mixture of presentations from the data producers and researchers who have used date from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, Scottish Crime and Justice Survey, Commercial Victimisation Survey, and more.

The keynote presentation and some of the talks will be recorded and made available on the event page.

Follow the event on X (formerly Twitter): #UKDSCrime24