Month: November 2011

Men – the real cause of crime?

I’m looking forward to talking in a couple of weeks time to some Sociology A-level students about UK crime, crime statistics and a host of related crime issues – one of which was crime related to gender. Do get in touch if you’d like me – Dan Lewis – to talk to you abuut UKCrimeStats, […]

In Britain, knife crime is much more deadly than gun crime

Having just learnt of this terrible story – Four Metropolitan Police officers stabbed in London – it took place in this neighbourhood,  I did some research and came across this very informative website, www.knifecrimes.org which I’ve now added to our blogroll. Violent crime as I’ve written here before, is a very broad category that we […]

UKCrimeStats now updated for September with new categories

Ok, we’ve done it. It took longer than usual because we had new 5 new crime types to build into the database. These are; Theft-shoplifting Drugs Criminal Damage and Arson Public Disorder and Weapons Theft-Other As you’ll see from our main chart below, we have added these under the Other category (from whence they came) […]