Fear of Crime survey develops - March 2010

Some members of the group had been at the residential in January, so explained what everyone had done over that weekend on the Fear of Crime Survey.

Nick (the Young NCB coordinator) explained that the NCB Research team had been amazed by the amount of work that the advisory group had done, but had done their best to put all of your ideas in to a survey.

They had said that they thought your ideas had fallen in to three areas:

• How does the fear of crime influence young people’s day to day behaviour (e.g. where go, who with etc)
• Young people’s perceptions of crime (what crimes there are and their affect on young people)
• Suggestions from young people as to what could be done to reduce the fear of crime (mainly at a local level)

Everyone agreed that this was right. We then broke in to pairs to go around to 5 different ‘posts’ that were stuck on the wall around the room.

Each post had different questions from the survey that the NCB Research department had put together, and each pair had to make suggestions on the language, if the question made sense, how questions could be asked differently, whether each question was going to get the information we wanted, what other questions could be asked. Each pair answered all theses questions AND MORE!

Nick explained that all of these suggestions would be taken back to the NCB Research team and that changes would be made – where changes weren’t made NCB Research will explain why. Once the changes are made, the survey will be tested by a griup of young people who work on a NCB project called ‘PEAR’, and after this it would go live on the Young NCB Website.

Paper Copies of Surveys

We also discussed Young NCB members getting pupils at their schools to fill out the survey. Nick said that he would send a letter to each advisory group members school to ask permission for surveys to be handed out.

Prizes!

It was agreed that there should be a prize draw for people completing the survey, and also the advisory group member who got the most people to complete a survey, either online or paper copies, would also win a prize!