Scottish Crime and Justice Survey Archives

A guide to using Scottish and UK datasets

July 14, 2017 fbarlow Scottish Independence Referendum 2014, Training and teaching materials

Thinking about conducting quantitative research on Scotland? Looking for the right survey for your research? Trying to find your feet with a new dataset? This page contains information on where to find datasets, pdf guides on how to use some of the major datasets and a pdf guide on useful tools for working with any dataset. Where can I find

Can Scotland shake off its violent reputation?

June 29, 2017 fbarlow AQMeN Blogs, Crime and Victimisation

AQMeN Director Professor Susan McVie explores Scotland’s reputation as ‘the most violent country in the developed world’ in this blog post. Drawing on figures from the Scottish Government Homicide in Scotland 2014-15 bulletin, together with data from the 2012/13 Scottish Crime and Justice Survey, AQMeN research on crime and victimisation and a number of international and UK comparative studies, Professor