Citation

Bottoms AE, Mawby RI, Walker MA. Br. J. Criminol. 1987; 27(2): 125-154.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Publisher Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

A crime survey was conducted in seven small residential areas (pop. 2000-3000) in the city of Sheffield, varying in their housing type and offcial crime rates. Within each housing type, the suruey found that official crime statistics were valid indicators of area crime-rate differences. However, the two high-rise housing areas appeartd as more problematic in the crime survey than in oficial data, with a particularly high ratio of survey offeness to recorded offenes. Some adjacent small residential areas were found to be demographically very similar but to have very different crime rates (on offcial or survey measures); this emphasises the importance of the micro-environmental dimension in criminological studies.