Measures of Violence within the Understanding
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 4:46 am
Society Survey, new opportunities for research
Profile picture of Niels BlomNiels Blom, one of our Data Impact Fellows, discusses his research looking at measures of violence in Understanding Society and the Crime Survey for England and Wales, and the opportunities this gives researchers.
Criminology has been hampered by a lack of longitudinal data to study the consequences of victimisation. However, recently ‘Understanding Society’, the United Kingdom Household Panel netherlands rcs data Survey (UKHLS), began fielding a small battery of questions relating to violence experience. Together with Dr. Vanessa Gash, in our recently published article, we examine the strengths and weaknesses of these UKHLS measures by comparing them to similar questions from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), a widely used and well regarded, but cross-sectional survey. With this analysis, we hope to encourage other researchers to look at some of the long-term consequences of violent victimisation.
New opportunities for longitudinal study of violence
While the UKHLS was not primarily designed to study violence and its effects, and is consequentially rarely used by criminologists, it has recently extended a battery of questions originally intended for its Ethnic Minority Booster sub-sample.
Profile picture of Niels BlomNiels Blom, one of our Data Impact Fellows, discusses his research looking at measures of violence in Understanding Society and the Crime Survey for England and Wales, and the opportunities this gives researchers.
Criminology has been hampered by a lack of longitudinal data to study the consequences of victimisation. However, recently ‘Understanding Society’, the United Kingdom Household Panel netherlands rcs data Survey (UKHLS), began fielding a small battery of questions relating to violence experience. Together with Dr. Vanessa Gash, in our recently published article, we examine the strengths and weaknesses of these UKHLS measures by comparing them to similar questions from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), a widely used and well regarded, but cross-sectional survey. With this analysis, we hope to encourage other researchers to look at some of the long-term consequences of violent victimisation.
New opportunities for longitudinal study of violence
While the UKHLS was not primarily designed to study violence and its effects, and is consequentially rarely used by criminologists, it has recently extended a battery of questions originally intended for its Ethnic Minority Booster sub-sample.