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The study of spatial and temporal crime patterns is important for both academic understanding of crime-generating processes and for …
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Objectives: Research evidence on schools as a factor in the distribution of neighborhood violence has produced varying and at-times …
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The study of discretionary police activity has largely focused on the demographic characteristics (particularly ethnicity) of the …
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Ensuring passenger security on mass transit is vital for modern cities. Failure to do so may jeopardize the societal, environmental and …
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Ensuring police resources are focused where they are most needed requires understanding of the consequences of crime in relation to …
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19 September 2019 12:00 AM Ghent, Belgium
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20 August 2019 2:00 PM Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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13 March 2019 12:00 AM Leicestershire Police Headquarters
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29 August 2018 12:00 AM Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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5 June 2018 12:00 AM Elche, Spain
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Recent Posts

2 min read Crime and justice chart of the week

The government recently doubled the maximum sentence for assaulting a police officer to 12 months in prison, introducing a new offence of assaulting an emergency worker. So far, this change is associated with only small increases in sentences handed down in court. larger image | annotated R code to produce this chart Data source: Ministry of Justice, 2020 Notes To test whether there were any differences between imprisonment probability or sentence length before and after the new law was introduced, I ran separate ARIMA regression models (using the auto.
1 min read Crime and justice chart of the week

While Turkey has Europe’s highest imprisonment rate, England and Wales locks up more people per 100,000 population than any other western European country.

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Data source: Eurostat, 2019 database tables crim_pris_cap.

1 min read Crime and justice chart of the week

Of the 10.9 million crimes which individual adults aged 16 years and over experienced in the past year, only 27% were reported to the authorities. Reporting rates vary substantially, with more-serious crimes more likely to be reported. Fraud makes up almost half of victim-based crime but is particularly unlikely to be reported, dragging down the overall average.

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Data source: Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2019

1 min read Crime and justice chart of the week

Police can search people they suspect of having prohibited items such as drugs or weapons. Since 2011, searches have decreased by 70%. Only 12% of searches lead to arrest, but this is increasing – total arrests from searches have decreased only 38% since 2011, suggesting police are getting better at targeting offenders.

larger image | annotated R code to produce this chart

Data source: Home Office, 2019

1 min read Crime and justice chart of the week

Police can search people they suspect of having prohibited items such as drugs or weapons. Since 2011, searches have decreased by 70%. Only 12% of searches lead to arrest, but this is increasing – total arrests from searches have decreased only 38% since 2011, suggesting police are getting better at targeting offenders.

larger image | annotated R code to produce this chart

Data source: Home Office, 2019

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