Index
Julian Molina
(University of Bristol, UK)
The First British Crime Survey
ISBN: 978-1-80382-276-1, eISBN: 978-1-80382-275-4
Publication date: 23 August 2023
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Molina, J. (2023), "Index", The First British Crime Survey (Emerald Advances in Historical Criminology), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 181-184. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-275-420231016
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Copyright © 2023 Julian Molina. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited
INDEX
Academics
, 53, 64–65
Accountability, context of
, 32
Administrative criminological work practices, studying
, 27–29
Administrative criminologists
, 27
Administrative criminology
, 146–150
circus and future studies of
, 150–152
to crime survey circus
, 7–12
Administrative critiques of police-recorded crime statistics
, 38
Administrative Data Research UK’s Data First project
, 148–149
Administrative reading practice
, 94
Administrative troubles
, 8–9, 13, 147, 155–157
Affect
, 19, 95
Well-mannered hostility
, 57–58, 70, 98–100
Analytical errors
, 35–36
Association of Chief Police Officers
, 122
Atheoretical empiricism
, 10–11
Autoethnography
, 159–160
British Crime Survey (BCS)
, 2, 7, 12, 46, 55–56, 75–76, 84, 135–136, 138, 146
criminologists
, 135–136
histories of
, 21–22
scope
, 68
Brixton Defence Campaign
, 37–38
Bureaucratic Art of Composition
, 95–97
Burglary
, 4–5, 7, 21, 42–43, 46, 60, 83, 103–104, 123, 127–128
Circus
, 7–12, 14, 150
Civil Service
, 55–56, 113–114
Clarke, Kenneth
, 2
Clarke, Ronald V.
, 27, 46, 63–64, 103–104, 106–107, 120–122, 126–127, 130
Common Platform
, 148–149
Concorde project
, 57–58
Conservative Party
, 45
Conservative Party Conference Speech
, 43–44
Constructionist critiques
, 41–42
Counting rules
, 75–77, 79–80, 83
Crime and Justice Data Hub
, 151
Crime Policy Planning Committee
, 59–60
Crime Policy Planning Unit
, 59–60
Crime Prevention Unit
, 140
Crime Survey
, 60
circus
, 7–12
data tables
, 73
report
, 73
Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW)
, 1, 144
Criminal Department Research Committee (CDRC)
, 59–61, 101–102
Criminal Justice Board data project
, 148–149
Criminal justice systems
, 1
Criminal Law Act 1977
, 48–49
Criminal statistics
, 39–40
Criminological community
, 125–127
Criminologists
, 65
Criminology
, 2, 7–8, 21–22, 27–28, 152
Critical colleagues
, 80–83
Cubbon, Sir Brian (Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the Home Office)
, 60, 66, 121
“Customer contractor” principle
, 102
Dark figure of crime
, 5, 7, 21–22, 55–56, 75–76
Data
, 47, 50, 125, 127, 147–148
Database of experts
, 53–54
Databases
, 30–31
Data infrastructures
, 1, 3, 25, 32, 54–55, 76–77, 88, 119, 138–139, 145–151
Data platforms
, 146–150
David Faulkner
, 37, 61–62, 100, 104, 120–124, 130
Dissemination strategy
, 115–116
Distorting effects of police practices
, 40
Domestic violence and abuse (domestic disputes)
, 49
Draft British Crime Survey Questionnaire, marked-up copy of
, 72
Draft reports
, 93–94
Bureaucratic Art of Composition
, 95–97
circulating report for approval
, 100–103
editing practices as administrative criminological practice
, 103–109
hostility and rigour
, 98–100
line edits as recomposition device
, 97–98
Editing practices as administrative criminological practice
, 103–109
Empirical breakthrough
, 2
Ethnomethodology
Ethnomethodological respecification
, 28–29
studies of work
, 27–28, 31–33
Ferdinand Mount
, 116–117, 127–129
First Leak
, 112
Future Visions of Survey
, 127–132
Gangs Violence Matrix database
, 149–150
Garfinkel, Harold
, 10, 12–13, 29, 94, 155, 159
Government researchers in Home Office
, 22–27
Government Social Research (GSR)
, 2–3, 22–23
functions and capacities
, 24
professionals
, 22–23
Government Statistical Service (GSS)
, 47–48
Great counting crime show
, 20–21
government researchers and statisticians in Home Office
, 22–27
histories of British Crime Survey
, 21–22
statistics as group self-portrait
, 29–32
studying administrative criminological work practices
, 27–29
Great Society programme
, 38–39
Greater London Council (GLC)
, 136–137
Group self-portrait
, 29–31
The Guardian
, 124–125
Hackney Legal Defence Committee
, 135–136
Hidden crime
, 5, 7, 22, 124
Home Office
, 6, 35–36, 57, 61
analysts
, 35
archives
, 40
Crime Policy Planning Unit
, 37
government researchers and
statisticians in
, 22–27
officials
, 37, 40, 42, 49, 55, 75–76, 115–116
systems
, 76–77
Home Office Criminal Department Research Committee
, 41
Home Office Criminal Statistics Committee
, 41–42
Home Office Research and Planning Unit
, 115–116
Home Office Research Unit
, 25–26, 40, 58–60
Home Office’s Statistical Department
, 34, 78
Hostility
, 98–100
Hough, Mike
, 5–7, 9–10, 21–22, 37, 40, 42, 57–60, 62, 66, 77–78, 87, 93, 95, 98–99, 104, 106, 108, 109, 122, 136, 141, 152
House of Commons Public Administration Committee
, 142–143
Innovation through appropriation
, 75–76
Interactionism
, 41–42
Interrogation methods
, 40–41
Inventory of edits
, 90
Islington Crime Survey
, 136–137
Justice platforms
, 146–150
Labelling theory
, 41–42
Law and order politics
, 3–4
ideological position
, 44–45
periodisation
, 44
punitive
, 46
Leaking
, 112, 121, 123
Liberal elitism
, 44
Line edits
, 94
as recomposition device
, 97–98
Logistics of research reports
, 117–119
Mandarins
, 61–65
Maurice, Rita
, 47–48, 83, 100, 109, 120, 123–124, 132
Mayhew, Patricia
, 2, 5–7, 21–22, 25, 27–28, 37, 45–46, 56, 63–64, 76, 78, 87, 98, 106, 108–109, 120, 126, 141, 143
Media monitoring
, 119–125
Medic-psychological model
, 25–26
Memory practices
, 30–31
Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)
, 43
Ministerial Group on Crime Prevention
, 140
Ministry of Justice
, 35–36
Minute sheets
, 96–97
Mugging
, 44–45, 107, 116–118, 143, 150
Mundane coordination of government research work
, 12–14
National archives, scenes in
, 153
National Crime and Justice Lab
, 148–149
National Crime Survey (NCS)
, 77–78, 83
New politics of law and order
, 43–46
Note-taking
, 94–95
Numero-politics
, 31
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
, 145–146
Office of Population Censuses and Survey
, 59–60, 83
Official critiques of police statistics
, 37–39, 43
meeting government’s ‘real need for data’
, 47–50
new politics of law and order
, 43–46
Official nervousness
, 119–125
Organisation
, 31–32
Organisational objects
, 29
Pilot Crime Surveys
, 57–61
Police decision-making
, 40–41
Police discretion
, 41–42
Police Federation
, 122
Police harassment
, 66–67
Police National Computer
, 24
Police Superintendents Association
, 122
Police-recorded crime statistics
, 75–76
Professional networks
, 56–57
Public attitudes survey
, 58–59
Public officials
, 54
Public opinion syndicate
, 65
‘Quantitative a-theoretical, money-grabbing researchers’
, 10–11
Quantification
, 10, 20, 32
Race
, 3, 8, 23–24, 68, 106, 149, 150
Racial arithmetic
, 31
Racial attacks
, 66–67
in London Borough of Tower Hamlets
, 52
Racial discrimination
, 66–67
Racialisation
, 23–24
Rayner Review of Government Statistical Services
, 47
Reciprocity
, 53
Recomposition device, line edits as
, 97–98
Red top strategy
, 115–116
Research and Planning Unit (RPU)
, 93–94, 103–104
Research Programme 1980/81
, 60
Researchers
, 91
Rigour
, 98–100
Riot affected areas
, 42–43
Scottish Home and Health Department
, 63, 77–78
Secure research service
, 17
Simmons Review
, 142
Situational Crime Prevention
, 2, 8, 45–46, 63
Social and Community Planning Research (SCPR)
, 77, 79
Social circumstances
, 7–8
Social research and surveys as ordinary infrastructures of government
, 138–146
Social Science Research Centre (SSRC)
, 125–127
Social Science Research Council
, 63–64, 77–78, 119–120
Social sciences
, 30–31
Statistical Department
, 5, 7, 10, 15, 43, 47–51, 59–62, 66, 68, 76, 78–82, 88, 90, 93, 96–101, 103–105, 109, 118, 120, 123, 126, 129, 130, 142
Statisticians in Home Office
, 22–27
Statistics
, 4, 30–31
as group self-portrait
, 29–32
Survey instrument
, 75–76
critical colleagues and lists of
counting rules
, 80–83
Survey’s Consultative Committee
, 77–79
Survey’s value
, 57
Home Office and Pilot Crime Surveys
, 57–61
making big announcements after ‘urban disorders’
, 66–69
working with victimology networks
and Mandarins
, 61–65
Tax and prices index (TPI)
, 130–131
Theatres of logistics
, 113, 116
Tuck, Mary
, 78–79, 83–84, 139
Urban disorders
, 37–38, 57
making big announcements after
, 66–69
Values
, 91
Vampiric policies
, 121
Victim Personal Statements
, 113
Victimology networks
, 61–65
Victims
, 63
surveys
, 61
Ward, D. H.
, 61–62, 78, 80–81, 83, 104–105, 108
Whitelaw, William
, 1–2, 66, 127–129, 147, 149–150
Young, Jock
, 7–8, 10–11, 135–139
- Prelims
- Introduction
- Interlude: The Secure Research Service
- Chapter 1 The Great Counting Crime Show
- Interlude: Analytical Errors
- Chapter 2 Official Critiques of Police Statistics: Criminological Knowledge and ‘Law and Order’ Politics
- Interlude: A Database of Experts
- Chapter 3 Selling the Survey's Value: Victimology Networks, Mandarins and the 1981 ‘Urban Disorders’
- Interlude: Before the Interview
- Chapter 4 Designing the Instrument: Counting Rules, Comparability and Consultations
- Interlude: ‘It Won't Fly…’
- Chapter 5 Reading Draft Reports: Editing as an Administrative Criminological Practice
- Interlude: Theatres of Logistics
- Chapter 6 Handling the Published Report: The Logistics of Dissemination and Media Monitoring
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Methodologies and Work Practices in the Archives
- References
- Index