Attitude towards crime and punishment in England and Wales, 1965-2023

What the general public thinks about crime and punishment is a vexed question. In an effort to bring systematic data to bear on this question, I have assembled the largest compilation of aggregated survey data on attitudes to crime and punishment in England and Wales to date. The dataset contains 1,...

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Main Author: Tiratelli, Matteo (Author)
Format: Electronic Research Data
Language:English
Published: Colchester UK Data Service 2024
In:Year: 2024
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