Attitudes to Crime & Prisons 2004
Q1 Which two or three of these do you think would do most to reduce crime in Britain?
Topline Results
- Results are based on 1,977 face-to-face interviews across Great Britain
- Data are weighted by age, sex, working status, area, urbanity and ethnicity
- Fieldwork was conducted between 4-8 November 2004
- Where results do not sum to 100, this may be due to multiple responses, computer rounding or the exclusion of don't knows/not stated
- Results are based on all respondents unless otherwise stated
- Results from 2003 and 2001 are based on 2,154 and 2,053 interviews respectively
- An asterisk (*) represents a value of less than one half or one percent, but not zero
Q1 Which two or three of these do you think would do most to reduce crime in Britain?
| 2004 | 2003 | 2001 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | |
| Better parenting | 57 | 59 | 55 |
| More police on the beat | 49 | 55 | 53 |
| Better discipline in schools | 46 | 45 | 49 |
| More constructive activities for young people | 41 | 41 | 40 |
| Capital punishment for murder | 24 | 23 | 20 |
| More effective programmes to change behaviour | 23 | 27 | 21 |
| Introducing a national identity card | 19 | 19 | 29 |
| More offenders in prison | 11 | 10 | 8 |
| Other | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| None of the above | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Don't know | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Q2 If you could spend 16310 million on dealing with crime, would you ... ?
| 2004 | 2001* | |
|---|---|---|
| % | % | |
| Hire 330 more police constables for a year | 29 | 27 |
| Set up teams in 60 cities to identify and work with children most at risk of getting into crime | 24 | 31 |
| Put 1,200 persistent young offenders on intensive supervision and surveillance programmes in the community | 9 | 8 |
| Provide 450 residential drug treatment places | 9 | n/a |
| Provide 16350,000 incentives to encourage businesses to move into and provide jobs in 200 high crime areas | 7 | 9 |
| Set up 50 Closed Circuit Television schemes in public spaces | 6 | 10 |
| Make 5,000 more offenders do community service | 4 | 5 |
| Use the money to provide more compensation to victims | 3 | 2 |
| Keep 270 adult offenders in prison for a year | 2 | 2 |
| Other | 2 | 1 |
| Don't know | 5 | 4 |
*Please note: Question wording in 2001 was slightly different. Option on residential drug treatment places was not asked, so number of options to choose from has changed. Also, numbers within the options have been changes to reflect changing costs since 2001. Therefore, direct comparisons cannot be made. Results are shown so that the pattern of responses can be compared.
Q3 Have you ever been inside a prison for any of the reasons on this card?
| % | |
|---|---|
| YES | |
| On remand or under sentence | 1 |
| Visiting a prisoner | 8 |
| As part of your work | 5 |
| As a volunteer | 1 |
| For another reason | 6 |
| No | 80 |
| Refused | * |
Q4 The Police and courts sometimes arrange for victims and offenders to meet so that the victim can explain the effects to the offender, and the offender can apologise. If you had been the victim of a burglary, how likely do you think it is that you would like to meet the offender in this way?
| % | |
|---|---|
| Very likely | 16 |
| Fairly likely | 22 |
| Not very likely | 26 |
| Not at all likely | 32 |
| Don't know | 3 |
Q5 Thinking now about a different scenario. If you were the victim of a crime and the offender was sentenced to do unpaid work in the community, how interested do you think you would be in having a say in what type of work that offender did?
| % | |
|---|---|
| Very interested | 33 |
| Fairly interested | 32 |
| Not very interested | 17 |
| Not at all interested | 15 |
| Don't know | 3 |
Q6 And thinking more generally, how interested would you be in having a say in the types of unpaid community work that offenders are sentenced to do in your area?
| % | |
|---|---|
| Very interested | 28 |
| Fairly interested | 36 |
| Not very interested | 19 |
| Not at all interested | 14 |
| Don't know | 3 |
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