TY  - JOUR
AB  - Police strategy in Germany to date has been largely determined by reported crimes, which are well documented in the German Police Crime Statistics (PKS). In Lower Saxony, the decision was made in 2012 to systematically study a second important source: those crimes that are not known to the law enforcement authorities. The "Criminological Research and Statistics" unit of the Lower Saxony State Office for Criminal Investigation was in charge to develop a suitable victim survey. Since then, two waves of the Survey on Safety and Crime had been conducted in 2013 and 2015. This paper was originally published in 2015 and focuses on the results of the first and by that time only survey. It describes the methodology used and the specific challenges faced when designing the survey and the solutions developed. It also presents the key findings of the first survey, to which an extensive report is downloadable on the internethomepage of the State Office for Criminal Investigation. Another report on the results of the second survey from 2015 has also been made available there.
AU  - Gluba, Alexander
DO  - 10.7396/IE_2016_B
ET  - 9/2016
KW  - undetected cirme
police crime statistics
criminality
criminology
LA  - eng
M1  - International Edition
PY  - 2016
SN  - 1813-3495
SP  - 20-29
ST  - Survey on Safety and Crime in Lower Saxony. Methods and findings of a study conducted by the police on unreported crime
T2  - SIAK-Journal − Journal for Police Science and Practice
TI  - Survey on Safety and Crime in Lower Saxony. Methods and findings of a study conducted by the police on unreported crime
UR  - http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_SIAK/4/2/1/ie2016/files/Gluba_IE_2016.pdf
VL  - 6
ID  - 557
ER  -