Guest post – Nick Ross republishes his chapter on Crime Statistics from the Crime Book

Posted: July 9, 2014 Author: Dan Lewis

Today we are delighted to be publishing the first in a series of posts from Nick Ross, probably best known as the long-time presenter of Crimewatch and author of a recent book, Crime: How to solve it – and why so much of what we’re told is wrong – which if you’ll forgive the plug, […]

Now with daytime population adjusted crime rates

Posted: July 9, 2014 Author: Dan Lewis

Deflating or inflating the impact of crime relative to the size of the population has long been a hot topic amongst criminologists when measuring crimes committed against a person. Using static residential population has limited utility unless it is a relatively static area that doesn’t have people coming and going into and out of it. How […]