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BROODING OVER THE DARK FIGURE OF CRIME: The Home Office and the Cambridge Institute of Criminology in the Run-up to the British Crime Survey
2014
Overview
There was nothing inevitable about the emergence of the British Crime Survey. This article shows how the dark-figure metaphor was popularized in England, and how some of its notable promoters used it as an argument against victim surveys. It then focuses on two strategic sites for criminological research in England during the late 1960s and 1970s, the Cambridge Institute of Criminology and the Home Office. Despite some internal division, both institutions rejected early proposals for victim surveys. The first attempt to replicate victim surveys in England was almost thwarted by censors in the Institute and the ministry. The relevance of this historical process for the present criminological scene is discussed in the final section.
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Oxford University Press,Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
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