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Crime Surveys User Conference 2024

6 Feb 2024 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Conferences
Crime

Booking will close on 30 January at noon.

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

Event resources

Programme (PDF)

Abstracts (PDF)

Keynote Presentation: Exploring the individual-level effects of Thatcherism on crime over the life-course: Evidence from strategically-paired cohort studies (PDF) 

Commercial Victimisation Survey: Update on developments and a summary of findings from the 2022 survey (PDF)

Transformation plans for the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) (PDF)

Crime Surveys for England and Wales: Update on latest data and findings (PDF)

The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey 2021/22: Latest findings and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (PDF)

Covid, mode effects and the SCJS: Did changes to the survey approach post-pandemic impact survey estimates? (PDF)

The regrettable prevalence of incidence in crime counts and how it misleads (PDF)

When there’s more than one assailant: Understanding variations in victims’ needs (PDF)

New Crime Survey for England and Wales integration code: Impact for investigating rare events such as different intimate partner perpetrator types (PDF)