Tackling Fear of Crime : A Starter Kit

This starter kit has been developed as part of the Home Office Police Research Award Scheme designed to stimulate new ideas from individuals within the police service.

It describes a simple computer system called Survey Plus that has been adapted to provide information about the general public's concerns relating to crime in their home neighbourhood.

The system achieves this by capturing responses to a carefully prepared questionnaire.

The handbook also explains the reasons behind the study that led to the development of the system, and provides some information about the questions themselves, the method to adopt when conducting the survey, and the ways in which the results might be analyzed and interpreted.

A disk containing Survey Plus Software for Analysing Fear of Crime Surveys is included, as well as loose questionnaire sheets.