Nobody Listens: the Experience of Contact Between Young People and Police, 1993.

The aim of this study was to develop a profile of contact between young people and the police; to create an understanding of the circumstances and characteristics of the young people responding to the survey, and of their attitudes towards police and police procedures. The main variables cover respondents comments on what happened when they were approached by police, searched, arrested and so on. Demographic variables include when and where the contact was, who was with the respondent on the occasion, and what they were doing at the time of contact with police. Background variables include age, sex, cultural background, language, employment status and type of residence.