期刊名称:Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica
印刷版ISSN:1696-9219
出版年度:2010
卷号:2010
期号:08
出版社:Sociedad Española de Investigación Criminológica
摘要:In Spain we do not have periodic victimization surveys since no agency has undertaken
this important task. In order to determine crime levels and trends, national researchers
have been forced to focus on official statistics, despite the known weaknesses of these
sources.
The present research displays an analysis of the current Spanish criminality, as shown
by victimization surveys nationwide. The longitudinal comparison was made between
the two passes (1989 and 2005) of the International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS) in
which Spain participated, and polls conducted by the Observatory for Crime in 2009
with the same ICVS questionnaire. Having these three surveys in sight, we have been
able to describe and to assess the evolution of crime in Spain in the last two decades.
As the reader will see through these pages, although public opinion assumes that crime
in Spain has increased through the last twenty years, victim surveys for these decades
show that crime in Spain has continuously dropped.