Issues in Survey Design: Using Surveys of Victimization and Fear of Crime as Examples

Yang, Sue‐Ming; Hinkle, Joshua C.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3876-2_25

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“…A question which causes a respondent to consider a particular subject may affect the way that they respond to a subsequent question. This has been found to occur with general well-being questions (McClendon & O'Brien, 1988) and fear of crime questions (Yang & Hinkle, 2012). The phenomenon has been referred to as the 'context effect' or the 'question ordering effect'.…”

Section: The Placement Of the Consent Questionmentioning

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Propensity to consent to data linkage: experimental evidence on the role of three survey design features in a UK longitudinal panel

Sala

Knies

Burton

2014

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

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When performing data linkage, survey respondents need to provide their informed consent. Since not all respondents agree to this request, the linked data-set will have fewer observations than the survey data-set alone and bias may be introduced. By focusing on the role that survey design features play in gaining respondents' consent, this paper provides an innovative contribution to the studies in this field. Analysing experimental data collected in a nationally representative household panel survey of the British population, we find that interview features such as question format (dependent/independent questions) and placement of the consent question within the questionnaire have an impact on consent rates.

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Section: The Placement Of the Consent Questionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Propensity to consent to data linkage: experimental evidence on the role of three survey design features in a UK longitudinal panel

Sala

Knies

Burton

2014

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

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“…Subsequently, under the influence of Ferraro and LaGrange (Ferraro, 1995: 23; Ferraro and LaGrange, 1987: 72), fear of crime has begun to be defined as ‘ a negative emotional reaction to crime or the symbols associated with crime’ and more complex batteries of questions have been developed, taking into consideration fear of a wide range of crimes, such as assault, theft, burglary, robbery, etc. (Ferraro and LaGrange, 1992; LaGrange and Ferraro, 1989), as well as the difference between its intensity and frequency (see Farrall et al, 1997; Farrall and Gadd, 2004; Yang and Hinkle, 2012). On the other hand, feeling of safety and risk perception—defined as judgments about the likelihood of criminal victimization—have been considered proximal determinants of fear of crime (Ferraro, 1995).…”

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Victimization experience does matter: Testing the effect of different types of victimization on fear of crime among adolescents

Podaná

Krulichová

2021

European Journal of Criminology

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The aim of the present study is to thoroughly examine the relationship between adolescent fear of crime and a wide variety of offences which commonly affect children. The analysed data comes from the Urban Youth Victimization Survey conducted among 9th grade students in the Czech Republic. The results unequivocally demonstrate that victimization experience, when measured properly, substantially affects adolescent fear of crime. All analysed types of victimization are associated with fear of crime, though the strongest effects were found for cyber-victimization and bullying rather than conventional violent and property crimes. Furthermore, a poly-victimization scale was revealed to be a highly effective tool for capturing overall victimization by using a single summary measure.

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“…Per United Nations guidance on crime victimisation surveys, 76 questions also involved asking for the frequency of victim interaction with crime events in order to increase the accuracy of crime prevalence estimations. Question ordering, another important issue in crime surveys given the possible unfamiliarity of respondents with certain types of crimes being questioned, 77 was also constructed so that opinions about crime prevention came at the end. This was to ensure that respondents had a thorough understanding (per previous questions on frequency of encounters) of the terrorist financing crimes and propaganda activities that the survey sought to address.…”

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The Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) in London: Countering Overseas Terrorist Financing and Support with “Nudge” and Situational Approaches

Akartuna

Thornton

2021

Terrorism and Political Violence

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Overseas diasporas have long been exploited by terrorist organisations seeking funding and support from areas beyond their operation. The Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), active in south-eastern Turkey, is no exception and maintains a significant international presence. This paper uses 73 survey responses and 13 interviews amongst London's Turkish and Kurdish diaspora to provide an original and comprehensive insight into the PKK's overseas operations, including their offending patterns, methods, hotspots, offender/victim profiles and existing countermeasures. Respondents were also consulted on new community-based prevention measures designed to address limited law enforcement responses and the laissez-faire approaches of diaspora host countries. This strategy, which combines crime science and behavioural economic theories, consists of Clarke's "Situational Crime Prevention" theory and Thaler and Sunstein's "Nudge" theory (SCP+N). The results indicate that the PKK creates criminal opportunities by "legitimising" itself across diasporas by invoking ideological sympathy and social dependence (conceptualised as "constructed legitimisers"), ensuring minimal resistance to its activities. SCP+N is motivated as an effective counterstrategy, addressing both the rational and impulsive nature of offending. The overall theoretical contribution of this paper is to assess overseas terrorist financing through a prevention-oriented, situational and behavioural framework, and to propose a community-based strategy to effectively counter such activities.

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Issues in Survey Design: Using Surveys of Victimization and Fear of Crime as Examples

Cited by 13 publications

References 51 publications

Propensity to consent to data linkage: experimental evidence on the role of three survey design features in a UK longitudinal panel

Propensity to consent to data linkage: experimental evidence on the role of three survey design features in a UK longitudinal panel

Victimization experience does matter: Testing the effect of different types of victimization on fear of crime among adolescents

The Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) in London: Countering Overseas Terrorist Financing and Support with “Nudge” and Situational Approaches

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