Summary information

Study title

Patterns of Residential Burglary and Urban Environments, 1982-1983

Creator

Herbert, D. T., University College of Swansea, Department of Geography

Hyde, S. W., University College of Swansea, Department of Geography

Study number / PID

1940 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-1940-1 (DOI)

Data access

Open

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The aims of this survey were: to identify patterns of burglary and related forms of residential crime; to identify vulnerable areas and examine bases of vulnerability; to research attitudes within different types of residential area and policy implications.
Main Topics:

Urban morphology, census variables, attitudinal and behavioural measures.

Crime and law enforcement

Data collection period

01/06/1982 - 01/08/1982

Country

Wales

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Families/households

Subnational

Crime victims

Demographic data

Households

Urban residents

Universe

Households in Swansea

Sampling procedure

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Grant number

HR7191

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1983

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Herbert, D. (1982) Geography of urban crime, London: Longman.