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Hidden victims: the gendered data gap of violent crime

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  • Kerris Cooper
  • Polina Obolenskaya

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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.

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  • Kerris Cooper & Polina Obolenskaya, 2021. "Hidden victims: the gendered data gap of violent crime," The British Journal of Criminology, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, vol. 61(4), pages 905-925.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:crimin:v:61:y:2021:i:4:p:905-925.
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    1. Hannah Manzur & Niels Blom & Estela Capelas Barbosa, 2024. "(Mis)Representing Ethnicity in UK Government Statistics and Its Implications for Violence Inequalities," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-33, April.
    2. Mason, Chloe, 2022. "An Investigation into the Prevalence and Predictors of Domestic Violence in England: A Quantitative Study using the Crime Survey for England and Wales," OSF Preprints 8gn6u, Center for Open Science.
    3. Bert Provan, 2022. "CASE Annual Report 2021," CASE Reports casereport142, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE.

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