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The Crime Survey for England and Wales (previously called the British Crime Survey)〔(British Crime Survey ) homeoffice.gov.uk, accessed 26 January 2012〕 is a systematic victim study, currently carried out by BMRB Limited on behalf of the Home Office. The survey seeks to measure the amount of crime in England and Wales by asking around 50,000 people aged 16 and over (as of January 2009), living in private households, about the crimes they have experienced in the last year. From January 2009, 4,000 interviews were also conducted each year with children 10–15 years old, although the resulting statistics remain experimental.〔(British Crime Survey: extension to 10 to 15 year olds ). British Home Office, 2010.〕 The survey is comparable to the National Crime Victimization Survey conducted in the United States. Initially the survey covered England, Wales and Scotland and was called the British Crime Survey but now the survey is restricted to England and Wales. The Scottish Government has commissioned a bespoke survey of victimisation in Scotland called the Scottish Crime and Victimisation Survey (SCVS). As a result of this, the British Crime Survey was renamed the Crime Survey for England and Wales to reflect this. The British Crime Survey had been first carried out in 1982 and further surveys were carried out in 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2001. Since April 2001, BCS interviews had been carried out on a continuous basis and detailed results from that point are now reported by financial years. Headline measures are updated quarterly based on interviews conducted in the previous 12 months. Since 1994 there has been a separate Northern Ireland Crime Survey, on a biennial basis from 2001, and continuously from January 2005. It is produced by the Statistics and Research Branch of the NIO. It is broadly comparable to the BCS in England and Wales.〔http://www.nio.gov.uk/07_northern_ireland_crime_survey-2.pdf〕 The Home Office asserts that the Crime Survey for England and Wales can provide a better reflection of the true level of crime than police statistics since it includes crimes that have not been reported to, or recorded by, the police. For example, due to widespread no criming, over one third of reports of violent crimes are not recorded by police.〔(Victims let down by poor crime-recording )〕 The Home Office also claims that it measures crime more accurately than Police statistics since it captures crimes that people may not bother to report because they think the crime was too trivial or the police could not do much about it. It also provides a better measure of trends over time since it has adopted a consistent methodology and is unaffected by changes in reporting or recording practices.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/bcs1.html )〕 ==Example of statistics gathered by the Crime Survey for England and Wales== In 2003/04 the number of robbery offences in England and Wales, for people aged 16 and over was around 283,000. In 2004/05 the number of robbery offences in England and Wales, for people aged 16 and over was around 255,000. The survey does not measure robbery offences among victims under 16 years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crime Survey for England and Wales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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