Welcome to the Summer edition of the ONS Centre for Crime and Justice newsletter, which includes news on recent and upcoming releases and events, and updates on the work we have been doing in the last 6 months.
Look out for the next edition in Winter 2022/2023.
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Crime Survey updates
We are now back in the field conducting face-to-face interviews for the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW). Our first set of estimates will be published in October 2022 based on 9 months data to year ending June 2022. Face-to-face interviewing also resumed in April 2022 on the CSEW for children aged 10 to 15 years and the first estimates are expected to be published in the year ending March 2023 quarterly bulletin in July 2023.
Upcoming survey data will be based on the face-to-face CSEW but will not initially be badged as a National Statistic. Their status as a National Statistic will be suspended until sufficient interviews are achieved. This is likely to be for the year ending March 2023 publication. The ability to restart face-to-face interviewing for the Crime Survey has enabled us to return to collecting more detailed information on the nature of crime and data on sensitive topics, such as domestic abuse and sexual assault via the CSEW self-completion module.
We would like to extend our gratitude and thanks to our colleagues at Kantar who continued to provide us with their service and support during the course of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Crime Survey consultation and development
We launched a consultation on our plans to transform the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) to ensure that it continues to reflect the evolving needs of policy makers, citizens and data users. The consultation will inform our plans to further develop the CSEW for future use and to make survey data collection more resilient to unforeseen future events, such as by increasing the sample size of the survey, moving to a multimodal panel design, exploring the feasibility of online surveying and continued questionnaire development to improve crime statistics. This consultation has now closed, and we will publish a response before November 2022.
Research and Development
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Domestic abuse - We have been undertaking a programme to redevelop the domestic abuse questions within the self-completion section of the Crime Survey. We aim to publish a summary of the work alongside the domestic abuse compendium publication later this year. The new set of survey questions to measure domestic abuse prevalence will be finalised in early 2023 and included on the survey on a split-sample basis from April 2023.
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Harassment - Analysis from data collected on the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN) was published in August 2021 and updated in May 2022. New questions measuring harassment have been added to the CSEW from April 2022 and we expect to publish our statistics based on these by July 2023.
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Crimes against children - Our feasibility study to determine whether a national survey could provide an effective source of data on the current scale and nature of child abuse remains ongoing. We published a progress update in April 2022. The next steps involve the development of an appropriate safeguarding process and questionnaire. We published a tender for this element of the work in September. We have commissioned Crest Advisory to redevelop the existing gangs and knife-carrying questions asked of children and young adults in the CSEW. We are also undertaking user engagement and cognitive testing to review and develop the module of questions on experiences of abuse during childhood for inclusion in the CSEW from April 2023 to March 2024.
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Crimes against non-household populations - We are reviewing how we can improve crime statistics on non-household populations that are not captured by the CSEW as part of our plans to make crime and justice statistics more inclusive. We plan to explore how we can make better use of other available data sources to complement CSEW and police recorded crime data.
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Violence against women and girls (VAWG) - We aim to publish a summary of our recent VAWG work before the end of March 2023. We have also now published the first iteration of a VAWG data dashboard for consultation – more details are provided below.
For more information on each research area please see our Progress Update - July 2022
VAWG Data Dashboard
Crimes which disproportionately affect women and girls, such as sexual violence, domestic abuse, and stalking have devastating consequences.
Following the publication of the violence against women and girls (VAWG) data landscape, we have been developing a prototype for a VAWG data dashboard which has gone live on 30 September. This prototype, powered by the Integrated Data Service, includes charts showing different abuse types, and links to related articles and the associated data tables. Our ambition is for the dashboard to evolve to bring together the breadth of evidence on VAWG. Having all relevant data in a single place, that can easily be visualised, will provide a more comprehensive picture of VAWG, addressing the needs of a range of users and supporting the UK Government’s Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy. We are keen to gather feedback on the prototype to help inform the future VAWG dashboard. Please share your views using this feedback form.
What's new in ONS Crime and Justice statistics?
Publications released since February 2022:
Nature of fraud and computer misuse in England and Wales: year ending March 2022, published 26 September 2022
Summary of the various sources of data for fraud and computer misuse and what these tell us about victims, circumstances and long-term trends.
Domestic abuse victim services, England and Wales: 2022, published 7 September 2022
Information on services that are available to victims of domestic abuse in England and Wales.
Crime in England and Wales - year ending March 2022, published 21 July 2022
Crime against households and adults using data from police recorded crime and the Telephone-operated Crime Survey for England and Wales (TCSEW). Includes the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on crime and people’s perceptions of crime during the April 2021 to March 2022 interview periods. Estimates from the TCSEW for the year ending March 2022 compared with the pre-coronavirus year ending March 2020 showed no statistically significant change in total crime.
Improving crime statistics for England and Wales – progress update July 2022, published 21 July 2022
Latest update on the progress being made to improve crime statistics for England and Wales.
The impact of crime on victims and society: March 2022, published 30 March 2022
This article summarises the crime harm framework that has been used to categorise existing related data in the new crime harm interactive database. It also includes information on how to use the recently updated Crime Severity Score data tool.
Child victims of modern slavery in the UK: March 2022, published on 29 March 2022
The hidden nature of modern slavery makes measuring victim numbers difficult. We have brought together data sources on child victims in the UK from a range of organisations to explore the issue.
Sourcing data on child victims of modern slavery, UK: progress report, published on 29 March 2022
An update on sourcing suitable data for Sustainable Development Goal indicators relating to modern slavery and children in the UK.
Victimisation and its relationship to drug misuse, common mental disorder and well-being in England and Wales: year ending March 2021, published on 3 March 2022
An overview of drug misuse, symptoms of common mental disorder and personal well-being in adults who reported being a victim of crime in the last year. Data from the telephone-operated Crime Survey for England and Wales.
Homicide in England and Wales: year ending March 2021, published on 10 February 2022
Analyses of information held within the Home Office Homicide Index, which contains detailed record-level information about each homicide recorded by police in England and Wales. There were 594 homicide victims in the year ending March 2021, 79 fewer (a 12% decrease) than the previous year.
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Geographies
Crime statistics are available at several different geographies. Below are links to Police Force Area (PFA) and Community Safety Partnership (CSP) level crime data.
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Police Force Area data tables - Data from police recorded crime. Shows the number of police recorded crimes, percentage change from previous year and rate per 1,000 population by offence group and knife and sharp instrument offences by Police Force Area.
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Recorded crime data by Community Safety Partnership area - Recorded crime figures for Community Safety Partnership areas, which equate usually to local authorities. Contains the number of offences for the last two years, percentage change between these two time periods and rates per 1,000 population for the latest year.
Further information on progress being made to improve crime statistics for England and Wales. can be found in our annual update document Improving Crime Statistics for England and Wales.
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