RT Article
T1 Hidden victims: the gendered data gap of violent crime
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 61
IS 4
SP 905
OP 925
A1 Cooper, Kerris
A1 Obolenskaya, Polina
A2 Obolenskaya, Polina
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1767105568
AB The official measure of violent crime, reported by the Office for National Statistics using the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), excludes sexual offences and neglects the self-completion survey data which more reliably captures sexual and domestic violence. In failing to include these gendered forms of violence, the official picture of who is most at risk of violence is skewed, suggesting men are at greater risk than women. This research re-estimates who is most at risk of violence, incorporating sexual and domestic violence and analysing trends in violence between 2005 and 2018 by gender. The findings challenge official statistics, revealing that women were at greater risk of violence than men in 2018.
K1 Violence
K1 Domestic  violence
K1 sexual  violence
K1 Gender
K1 Crime Survey for England and Wales
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaa100