Scottish Crime and Justice Survey, 2014-2015: Special Licence Access, Self-Completion Data

The <i>Scottish Crime and Justice Survey</i> (SCJS) is a social survey which asks people about their experiences and perceptions of crime in Scotland. The survey is an important resource for both the government and public of Scotland. Respondents are selected at random from the Postal Address File and participation in the survey is entirely voluntary. The main aims of the SCJS are to:<ul><li>provide reliable statistics on people's experience of crime in Scotland, including services provided to victims of crime</li><li>assess the varying risk of crime for different groups of people in the population</li><li>examine trends in the level and nature of crime in Scotland over time</li><li>collect information about people's experiences of, and attitudes on a range of crime and justice related issues</li></ul>An important role of the SCJS is to provide an alternative and complementary measure of crime to police recorded crime statistics. For further details of the scope and methodology of the SCJS, please see documentation. Information about the survey and links to publications may be found on the Scottish Government's <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/crime-and-justice-survey" title="Scottish Crime and Justice Survey">Scottish Crime and Justice Survey</a> webpages.<br>
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<i>Background and history of the SCJS</i><br>Previous surveys of victimisation in Scotland began with the Scottish components of the 1982 and 1988 sweeps of the <i>British Crime Survey</i> (BCS) (held at the Archive under SNs 4368 and 4599) The Scottish element of the 1988 BCS was also known as the <i>Scottish Areas Crime Survey</i> and coverage was limited in those early surveys to the areas south of the Caledonian Canal. From 2012, the BCS has been renamed the <i>Crime Survey for England and Wales</i> (CSEW) (held under GN 33174). <br>
<br>The first independent Scotland-only crime survey was commissioned by the Scottish Office in 1993 under the title of the <i>Scottish Crime Survey</i> (SCS) and was followed by repeated sweeps in 1996 (both years held together under SN 3813), and again in 2000 (SN 4542) and 2003 (SN 5756). In 2004 the survey underwent both a name change, to the <i>Scottish Crime and Victimisation Survey</i> (SCVS) (SN 5757), and a major methodological change, with a move away from in-home face-to-face interviewing to telephone interviewing. However, the 2006 SCVS (SN 5784) returned to face-to-face interviewing after it was shown that the robustness of the data produced by the 2004 telephone survey could not be substantiated. From 2008-2009, the series name was changed to the present title, the <i>Scottish Crime and Justice Survey</i>, and it moved to a repeated annual cross-sectional schedule based on financial year. From 2012-13 the SCJS moved from annual to biennial survey covering the financial year <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">however, the 2014-15 survey was the last biennial survey and currently the SCJS is conducted on an annual basis.</span> See the documentation for further details.<br>
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<b>Special Licence data</b><br>From 2012-2013 only the Main Questionnaire data are available under standard End User Licence (EUL) agreement. The Victim Form and Self-Completion data are available under Special Licence (SL). The SL data have more restrictive access conditions than those made available under the standard EUL. Prospective users of the SL version will need to complete an extra application form and demonstrate to the data owners exactly why they need access to the additional variables in order to get permission to use that version.<br>
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The <i> Scottish Crime and Justice Survey, 2014-2015: Special Licence Access, Self-Completion Data</i> contains data from the Self-Completion questionnaire only. The Main Questionnaire data are available from SN 8141. The Victim Form data are available under SL from SN 8142. Users are advised to use the main 2014-2015 SCJS documentation which is available from SN 8141.<br>
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《苏格兰犯罪与司法调查》（Scottish Crime and Justice Survey，SCJS）是一项社会调查，旨在询问苏格兰民众的犯罪经历及其对犯罪的认知。该调查是苏格兰政府与公众的重要信息来源。受访者从邮政地址档案（Postal Address File）中随机选取，且参与完全自愿。SCJS的主要目标包括：<ul><li>提供苏格兰民众犯罪经历的可靠统计数据，包括为犯罪受害者提供的服务</li><li>评估人口中不同群体面临的犯罪风险差异</li><li>分析苏格兰犯罪水平与性质随时间的变化趋势</li><li>收集民众对各类犯罪及司法相关问题的经历与态度信息</li></ul>SCJS的一个重要作用是为警方记录的犯罪统计数据提供替代且互补的衡量标准。有关SCJS的范围与方法学的更多细节，请参阅文档。调查相关信息及出版物链接可在苏格兰政府的<a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/crime-and-justice-survey" title="Scottish Crime and Justice Survey">苏格兰犯罪与司法调查</a>网页上找到。<br><br>《SCJS的背景与历史》<br>苏格兰早期的受害情况调查始于1982年和1988年《英国犯罪调查》（British Crime Survey，BCS）的苏格兰部分（存档编号SN4368和4599）。1988年BCS的苏格兰部分也被称为《苏格兰地区犯罪调查》，早期调查的覆盖范围仅限于喀里多尼亚运河以南地区。2012年起，BCS更名为《英格兰及威尔士犯罪调查》（Crime Survey for England and Wales，CSEW）（存档编号GN33174）。<br><br>首个独立的苏格兰专属犯罪调查由苏格兰事务部于1993年委托开展，名为《苏格兰犯罪调查》（Scottish Crime Survey，SCS），随后于1996年进行重复调查（1993年和1996年的数据共同存档于SN3813），并在2000年（SN4542）和2003年（SN5756）再次开展。2004年，该调查更名为《苏格兰犯罪与受害情况调查》（Scottish Crime and Victimisation Survey，SCVS）（SN5757），并进行了重大方法调整：从家庭面对面访谈改为电话访谈。然而，由于2004年电话调查的数据稳健性无法得到证实，2006年SCVS（SN5784）又恢复了面对面访谈。2008-2009年，该系列调查更名为当前的《苏格兰犯罪与司法调查》，并改为基于财年的年度重复横断面调查。2012-13年，SCJS从年度调查改为覆盖财年的两年一次调查；不过2014-15年是最后一次两年一次调查，目前SCJS已恢复为年度调查。更多细节请参阅文档。<br><br><b>特殊许可数据</b><br>2012-13年起，仅主问卷数据可通过标准终端用户许可（End User Licence，EUL）协议获取。受害者表格和自填数据需通过特殊许可（Special Licence，SL）获取。SL数据的访问条件比标准EUL下的更严格。SL版本的潜在用户需额外填写申请表，并向数据所有者明确说明其需要访问额外变量的理由，方可获得使用许可。<br><br>《苏格兰犯罪与司法调查2014-2015：特殊许可访问，自填数据》仅包含自填问卷的数据。主问卷数据可从SN8141获取。受害者表格数据可通过SL从SN8142获取。建议用户使用2014-2015年SCJS的主文档，该文档可从SN8141获取。<br><br>