Crime and Criminal Justice Resources

Questions on the Criminal Justice System were asked in NILT 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Questions on Crime and Fear of Crime were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) survey in 1998.

Questions on police stop and search experiences were asked of 16 year olds in the Young Life and Times (YLT) survey in 2017.

Questions on community safety and perceptions of paramilitary influence were asked in NILT in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Questions on community safety and perceptions of paramilitary influence were in the YLT survey in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020-21 and 2022.

Questions on gender-based violence were asked in NILT in 2022.
Questions on gender-based violence were asked in YLT in 2022.
Questions on coercive control were asked in NILT in 2020.
Questions on coercive control were asked in YLT in 2020-21.

Questions on Road Safety were asked in the NILT survey in 2019.

Questions on Criminal Responsibility were asked of 10-11 year olds in the 2016 Kids' Life and Times survey.

ARK Resources

• Reviewing the Review: Barriers to Implementing the Northern Ireland Youth Justice Review (ARK Feature 10) by Clare Dwyer and Siobhán McAlister explores what progress has been made in the implementation of the 2011 Youth Justice Review.
• Raising the age of criminal responsibility: endless debate, limited progress (ARK Feature 3) by Clare Dwyer and Siobhán McAlister highights issues and research relating to the age of criminal responsibility.
• Raise the Age? Children’s attitudes towards the minimumage of criminal responsibility by Siobhán McAlister, Nicola Carr, Clare Dwyer and Katrina Lloyd (Research Update) is based on data from the 2016 Kids' Life and Times survey.
• View information provided by the CAIN web service on policing in Northern Ireland and on crime statistics.
  
• Read The Public and the Police by John D. Brewer from Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland: The Second Report.
• A study into the Attitudes to crime, crime reduction and community safety in Northern Ireland was commissioned by the Criminal Justice Review Group in 1999.

Links

• The Department of Justice has responsibility for justice and law, prisons, forensic science, legal aid, youth justice, policing and community safety, and courts and tribunals.
• The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland provides an independent, impartial system for the handling of complaints about the conduct of police officers.
• The Public Prosecution Service decides whether or not to prosecute people for committing criminal offences. It decides what the correct charges should be and is also responsible for prosecuting the case at court.
• The Statistics section of the Police Service of Northern Ireland web site provides a range of crime-related information.
• The report Annual report on public awareness of the Police Complaints System in Northern Ireland, 2018/19, published by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, is based on data from the 2018 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
• Perceptions of Paramilitarism in Northern Ireland is a report published by NISRA, based on data from the 2017 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
• Victim Support is a charity providing support for people affected by crime.

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