RT Article
T1 Prevalence of sexual violence: A comparison of estimates from UK national surveys
JF European journal of criminology
VO 19
IS 5
SP 891
OP 910
A1 Brunton-Smith, Ian
A1 Flatley, John
A1 Tarling, Roger
A2 Flatley, John
A2 Tarling, Roger
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1839927666
AB Accurately measuring the prevalence of sexual violence is difficult. Police-recorded crime figures are known to underestimate the true extent of sexual violence, and so researchers have tended to rely on survey estimates instead. But estimates from surveys are not uniform, with recent estimates from the UK National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles apparently twice as large as official figures from the major crime surveys (the Crime Survey for England and Wales and the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey). In this study we use harmonized data from these three surveys and the UK component of the EU Violence Against Women Survey to explore the features of the surveys that may have contributed to these differences.
K1 Crime Survey for England and Wales
K1 National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles
K1 Scottish Crime and Justice Survey
K1 Sexual Violence
K1 Violence Against Women Survey
K1 Survey Methodology
DO 10.1177/1477370820932077