Record revealed
Hoax letter signed by ‘Jack the Ripper’
This is one of hundreds of letters in police files claiming to have been written by the infamous Whitechapel Murderer – otherwise known as 'Jack the Ripper'.
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British Crime Survey: 1982 dataset
Catalogue reference: HO 400/1
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HO 400/1
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Crime Survey: 1982 dataset
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Date (When the record was created)
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1982
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Description (What the record is about)
- This dataset consists of data gathered in England and Wales in the first British Crime Survey (BCS), conducted in 1982. The sweep was conducted by Social and Community Planning Research (SCPR), on behalf of the Home Office and the Scottish Home and Health Department. Like the later 1988 survey, the 1982 sweep also included Scotland. However, there is no Scottish data included with this dataset. The British Crime Survey was primarily intended to gather information on respondents' experiences of household and personal crimes from 1st January 1981 up to date of the interview. The central aim of the survey was to assess the incidence of victimisation of selected types of crime among the public and to look at the circumstances in which people become victims. This involved asking respondents a series of screening questions to establish whether or not they had been victims of relevant crimes during the reference period and to ask a series of very detailed questions about the incidents they reported. Basic descriptive background information on respondents and their households was also collected to allow analysis of the sorts of people who do and do not become victims. Information was also collected on other areas which were of intrinsic interest and which could usefully be related to experience as a victim. These areas were: fear of crime; contact with the police; lifestyle; and self-reported offending. The dataset consists of 6 tables.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
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CRDA/2/DS/1
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Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Policing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11518727/
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HO 400
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British Crime Survey: 1982 dataset
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