Parenting Not Prison The Answer To Crime — Topline results
A majority of people in Britain thinks better parenting and more police on the beat would do most to reduce crime, with only 8% suggesting more offenders in prison as the answer.
Press release- Results based on 2,053 interviews in 196 sample points across Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland)
- Interviews were conducted face-to-face, in home between 22nd and 27th November 2001
- Data are weighted by gender, age, region, social grade and cars in household to match the profile of Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland)
- Where results do not sum to 100%, this may be due to multiple responses, computer rounding or the exclusion of don't knows, not stateds
- An asterisk (*) represents a value of less than one half of one percent, but not zero
- Results are based on all respondents
Q1 Which two or three of the following do you think would do most to reduce crime in Britain?
| % | |
| Introduce a national identity card | 29 |
| Better parenting | 55 |
| More offenders in prison | 8 |
| More police on the beat | 53 |
| More constructive activities for young people | 40 |
| More effective programmes to change behaviour | 21 |
| Capital punishment for murder | 20 |
| Better discipline in schools | 49 |
| Other | 1 |
| None of these | 1 |
| Don't know | 1 |
Q2 To what extent do you agree or disagree with the statement "Most people come out of prison worse than they go in"?
| % | |
| Strongly agree | 16 |
| Tend to agree | 37 |
| Neither agree nor disagree | 25 |
| Tend to disagree | 12 |
| Strongly disagree | 2 |
| Don't know | 9 |
