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United Nations International Crime Victim Survey: Crime Victimization in Hong Kong

05 Oct 2006

 

The Centre for Criminology and Social Sciences Research Centre of Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong jointly conducted the "United Nations International Crime Victim Survey: Crime Victimization in Hong Kong" (HK UNICVS) between February and June 2006. The survey follows an international protocol and is conducted under the auspices of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute. The HK UNICVS is part of the 5th UN International Crime Survey conducted in 2005/06 in over 30 countries.

Members of the press are cordially invited to attend the press conference, during which the preliminary findings from telephone interviews with 2,283 respondents about their experiences with crime in HK will be presented. The details are as below:

Date: October 6, 2006 (Friday)
Venue: Convocation Room, Room 218 Main Building, HKU
Time: 11:00am Presentation of findings by
Professor John Bacon-Shone, Acting Director, Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU
Professor Rod Broadhurst, Honorary Professor Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU; and Head, School of Justice Studies, Queensland University of Technology;
11:40am Question and Answer Session
Moderator: Professors John Bacon-Shone and Rod Broadhurst
12:00pm End

Crime victim surveys (CVS) provide an independent measure of crime and enable estimates of the 'dark figure' of crime (e.g. rate of unreported crimes). Such surveys help identify high risk groups. The results also aid policy makers in understanding the prevalence and severity of crime and help shape new measures for the criminal justice system. Since 1989, over 70 countries or cities have conducted this survey which provides a unique source for international comparison.

The last CVS in Hong Kong was conducted by the Department of Census and Statistics, HKSAR in 1999. The new HK UNICVS not only provides updated information about current trends in household and personal crime as well as offers an alternative measure of crime victimization, it also provides independent data that allows reliable comparison about the extent of crime across nations.

For media enquiries, please contact Miss. Vanessa Sit, Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong on 2859 2983 or vansit@hku.hk. For details, please visit http://www.crime.hku.hk.