NCJ Number
153654
Journal
European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research Volume: 2 Issue: 4 Dated: (1994) Pages: 14-35
Date Published
1994
Length
22 pages
Annotation
This discussion of victimization surveys notes that surveys of domestic assault, business victimization, and victim surveys directed at foreigners have many weaknesses and provides examples of research in Hanover, Germany, seeking to remedy these weaknesses.
Abstract
To study domestic assault, the researchers combined personal interviews combined with questionnaires that participants completed in the absence of the interviewer. The questionnaires revealed that for women, most violence is domestic violence. Responses about corporal punishment revealed a gradually declining use of corporal punishment in Germany since the 1920's. An international survey of crimes against businesses is focusing on Turkish, Italian, and German-owned restaurants and shops, to permit questions regarding crimes such as racketeering and corruption where confidence in social control may be low. Based on recognition that foreigners are often, by definition, omitted from victimization surveys, the researchers have also developed plans for a general victimization survey directed at certain foreign populations, such as the Turkish population in Germany. Figures, table, and 34 references