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New questions have been adopted by a number of other researchers working in a number of other countries (see the End of Award Report for RES-000-22-0040 for a full report of the adoption of these questions). The most notable adoption was by the British Crime Survey (BCS) design team at the Home Office Research & Statistics Directorate, who modified the questions in order that they refer to three types of crime, and included these in the 2003/04 sweep. The questions were entered into Follow Up D of the questionnaire, so have been asked of 5-6,000 respondents living in England and Wales. The BCS is one of the government’s flagship surveys, and the Home Office’s main method of tracking changes in the public perceptions of crime and their experience of victimisation, contact with the police and the wider criminal justice system. It has been running since 1982, and is now run on an annual basis. The BCS is rigorously designed and piloted and the data are collected using state-of-the-art research methodologies such as computer assisted personal interviewing.

This proposal seeks to undertake analyses of data from the BCS 2003/04. These analyses stem from the Future Research Priorities referred to in the End of Award Report for the earlier project. Four phases are planned:

1. Confirmation of Current Estimations of Fear levels for Offence-Specific Questions
2. Exploration of Offence-Specific Fear Questions by Socio-Demographic Data
3. Modelling the Fear of Crime Using New and Old Measures
4. The Fear of Crime: Experience and Expression

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