RT Article
T1 How Priority Ordering of Offence Codes Undercounts Gendered Violence: an Analysis of the Crime Survey for England and Wales
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 64
IS 2
SP 381
OP 399
A1 Pullerits, Merili
A2 Phoenix, Jessica
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1882175131
AB The Offence Classification System (OCS) of the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) applies a priority order of offences that undercounts violence. By prioritizing burglary and criminal damage above some types of assault, physical violence that co-occurs with property crimes is discounted from official counts of incidents and victims of violence. Analyzing CSEW data from 2010/11 to 2019/20, we find the OCS omits approximately 210,000 incidents of violence every year. Out of these incidents, 51 per cent are domestic violence against women, contributing further evidence to the CSEW’s gendered data gap. Socioeconomically disadvantaged victims are also disproportionately undercounted. Whilst prior research has highlighted the undercounting of violence prevalence and repetition in the CSEW, the OCS undercounts the concurrency of violence.
K1 Violence
K1 Domestic Violence
K1 offence codes
K1 Gender
K1 Crime Survey for England and Wales
DO 10.1093/bjc/azad047