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Challenges in Violence Research: Victimisation Study

Discussion about crime and violence within the framework of sociology of deviance, often imposes question about sources of information that one should use in order to study crime and violence. Many researchers suggest that official statistics data is often incomplete and that it might potentially distort a realistic picture while answering the question to which extent different types of violence occur in social life. Therefore, sociologists generally propose that the scope of different types of crime should be studied with the additional methods such as crime surveys, victimisation studies and self-reported delinquency surveys. Despite of their limitations, these methods can certainly help scholars and practitioners to further illuminate the scope of various types of crime that official statistics did not reveal and to accomplish additional comprehension of main causes of crime and violence in a certain society. Within this presentation, author will present a survey of student self-reports regarding their experiences related to different types of violence. The survey was conducted within the University of Rijeka.

Violence Research Lab, violence research methodology, official statistics of crime, crime survey, victimisation study

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