Scottish Crime and Justice Survey: Sexual Victimisation and Stalking

The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey ( SCJS) is a large-scale continuous survey measuring people’s experience and perceptions of crime in Scotland, based on 16,000 in-home face-to-face interviews conducted annually with adults (aged 16 or over) living in private households in Scotland. The results are presented in a series of reports including this one, which provides information on sexual victimisation and stalking. The 2009/10 survey is the second sweep of the SCJS, with the first having been conducted in 2008/09.

The main aims of the SCJS are to:

    * Provide a valid and reliable measure of adults’ experience of crime, including services provided to victims of crime;
    * Examine trends in the number and nature of crime in Scotland over time;
    * Examine the varying risk of crime for different groups of adults in the population;
    * Collect information about adults’ experiences of, and attitudes to, a range of crime and justice related issues.