Focus on Public Perceptions of Crime and the Police, and the Personal Well-being of Victims, 2013 to 2014

Product Description

This release is the third of 3 annual Focus on’publications produced through collaboration between ONS and Home Office analysts. The first 2 focused on property crime (published in November 2014) and violent crime (published in February 2015). These publications presented data from both police recorded crime and the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW). This publication mostly uses data from the CSEW, although there are occasional references to other data sources.

The first chapter explores people's overall ratings and confidence in the police. It then looks at measures of police visibility, before tying the two together and examining the relationship between visibility and ratings of the police. Included in this are both trends over time and demographic breakdowns from the 2013/14 CSEW. It finishes by considering victim satisfaction with the police, another key measure of police performance.

Chapter 2 presents findings from the 2013/14 CSEW and looks at people’s perception of changing crime levels in their local area and in the country as a whole, including the sources of information that helped inform their opinions. It also examines people’s perceived likelihood of victimisation and their worry about crimes including demographic breakdowns.

Chapter 3 looks at people’s personal well-being, and the differences between how victims of crime rate their personal well-being compared with non-victims. The analysis uses as its source combined data from both the 2012/13 and 2013/14 CSEW. Combining data from two survey years increases the number of incidents available for analysis and enables comparisons between victims and non victim’s wellbeing for most crime types.