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**************REMINDER TO BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW***************
**************FOR THE FOLLOWING DAY CONFERENCE**************
Criminology Data Resources: Re-using Qualitative and Quantitative Data
A one day conference organised by
QUALIDATA and the Data Archive, University of Essex
and the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
Friday 6 November 1998
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Programme
MORNING: Resources for Research: Making data available
9.45 - 10.00 Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.15 Introduction to the day
Louise Corti, Qualidata
10.15 - 10.45 Resources for Research: Existing and Forthcoming Sources of Archived
Criminological Data
¨ Quantitative and Historical Data: Sharon Bolton and Susan Cadogan, The Data Archive
¨ Qualitative Data: Dr. Julie Charlesworth, Qualidata
10.45 - 12.30 Preservation and Access: Benefits and Problems
¨ Fear of Crime, Professor Tony Jefferson and Dr. Wendy Hollway
¨ The Institute of Criminology Radzinowicz Archives,
Dr. Loraine Gelsthorpe, Institiute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
¨ Preserving Confidentiality and Providing Access
Dr Chris Kershaw, Home Office
¨ Making the British Crime Survey available
Dr. Patricia Mayhew, Home Office Research and Statistics Directorate
12.30 -12.45 Discussion
12.45 - 1.45 Buffet Lunch
AFTERNOON: Criminological Research: Using the Resources
1.45 - 2.15 Plenary: "Developments in criminological research"
Professor Tim Newburn, Goldsmith’s College
2.15 - 3.30 Re-using Existing Data in Criminology
¨Studying Factory Crime: Using Historical and Contemporary Data
Dr. Barry Godfrey, University of Keele
¨ Re-using the British Crime Survey
Professor Ken Pease, Applied Criminology Group, University of Huddersfield
¨ Re-Using the Offenders Index in Criminal Careers Research
Elizabeth Ackerly and Brian Francis, Department of Applied Social Sciences,
University of Lancaster
3.30 - 4.00 Open Forum and Discussion
4.00 TEA and CLOSE
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BOOKING FORM
I wish to attend the above conference to be held at the Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
on Friday 6 November 1998
Cost: £25.00 to include lunch, coffee and tea. Nb. Limited number of places for PhD students (no reductions).
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I enclose a cheque for ............ made payable to ‘The University of Essex’.
In order to help us assess our audience, we would be grateful if you would complete, briefly, the following three questions:
1. Have you carried out criminological research yourself? If so, please say briefly in what fields
2. Do you intend to deposit data you have collected as part of your research? If so, please say from which project(s)
3. Have you used archived data before? If so, please say briefly which sources and what date(s).
4. Do you intend to use archived data in the future? If so, please say which sources or topics you would be most
interested in.
Booking forms must be returned with payment by Friday 23 October 1998. We are sorry that booking
forms received without payment enclosed or questions in the box completed cannot be accepted.
To: Criminology Conference, Qualidata, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Wivenhoe
Park, Colchester, Essex CO4 5SQ. Tel: 01206 873058. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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