Measuring Personal Thefts in France : Victimisation Surveys and Police Statistics since the Mid-1980s

Renée Zauberman (1) , Philippe Robert (1) , Sophie Névanen (1) , Lisa Miceli (1)

1 CESDIP - Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales

Measuring crime trends can draw upon several data sources. Victimisation surveys, questioning population samples on offences to which they had been prey over a given period, were invented because a number of offences are not found in police and gendarmerie activity statistics. The present study of personal thefts is based on a comparison of these two sources. While the information available for personal thefts in general is homogeneous, specific data on robberies are more fragmentary.

Domaines: Sociologie

Renée Zauberman, Philippe Robert, Sophie Névanen, Lisa Miceli. Measuring Personal Thefts in France : Victimisation Surveys and Police Statistics since the Mid-1980s. Penal Issues, 2010, 3, pp.1-4. ⟨hal-00835971⟩