2004

Home Office Research Study 279.

This report presents the key findings and recommendations from the Crime and Disorder associated with Prostitution Initiative, which was part of the work conducted under the
umbrella of the Crime Reduction Programme (CRP). The CRP was an evidence basedinitiative, which aimed to find out which approaches and practices were effective in tackling
crime.

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Authors: Marianne Hester, Nicole Westmarland

Home Office Research Study 276.

Extract from foreward;

'Inter-personal violence comprises crimes of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. These are important forms of crime and the government is engaged in a major series of policy initiatives in order to deal with them. However, only a small fraction of these cases are
reported to the police and re c o rded by them, and eveninterview based surveys have difficulty in getting people to disclose such events. This report presents the findings of an
innovative computerised self-completion questionnaireincluded in the British Crime Survey (BCS) which encourages wider reporting of experiences than the main face-to-face part of the BCS. It builds on previous use of this methodology in the BCS, and provides the most reliable
findings to date on the extent and nature of inter-personal violence in England and Wales'.

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Email: publications.rds@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

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Authors: Jonathan Allen, Sylvia Walby

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