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only be started once the statisticians from the national education board were able to work
on it. This movement of the ONDRP was a means of asking for time and in the end, it led
to a certain amount of disengagement on the part of researchers.
For victimization studies in the school contexts, the ONDRP has been able to play
the role of catalyst between statisticians from the SSM of the ministry for national
education and the universe of research represented by Éric Debarbieux, university
professor, member of the board of advisers of the ONDRP, and sociologist Cécile Carra.
In this critical phase, during the design of the “Cadre de vie et sécurité” study in
2005, Philippe Robert chose as an emblem to contest the legitimacy of the OND, a
position that he regularly renewed during each of its interventions or publications
whether it be in a direct way or more often indirect way to neglect to mention the OND as
being at the origin of ideas associated with INSEE in the implementation of the “Cadre
de vie et sécurité” study whether it be carrying out work and statistics studies carried out
based on the use of results of PCV 30 studies or “Cadre de vie et sécurité” studies.
In the announcement in November 2010 from the CESDIP we see the sentence “it is
in fact at this stage (in 2007) that the ministry of the interior obtained from INSEE the
launch of studies such as ‘Cadre de vie et sécurité’” CVS studies. This is inspired by
elements of rhetoric developed regularly regarding by the OND by its detractors and that
it suggests that all requests coming from the OND have come from ministry of the
interior which necessarily should discredit it.
Maintaining constructive participation during the process of designing a public
statistics study can, of course, involve compromises from researchers, or even giving up
on usual practice. However, removal or conflicts are choices which are less fruitful above
all if one is led in order to use the study.
The conflict in which it was launched in 2005 Philippe Robert during the design of
the “Cadre de vie et sécurité” study appeared seven years later as one of the main
determining factors of the means of participation of the CESDIP in public debate relating
to figures on crime. It explains, in particular, the willingness displayed by the CESDIP to
compete with the ONDRP on victimization in public debate. While this position is not
coherent with the status of two organizations between which on the contrary important
synergies exist.
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30 PSV: Permanent studies relating to living conditions.
31 Title translation: summary titles of the book titles in French.
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