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Way back in 2011 when I started this website, I took the plunge and decided to call it UKCrimeStats.com although there was no data for Scotland or Northern Ireland. About a year later, NI data appeared and then for years after there was nothing for Sotland until they released some not very good data at […]
I’ve written about this before but it’s worth pointing out again. There are real shortcomings in trying to compare different areas by crime rate. It really doesn’t give you a clear picture and leads to huge distortions. So what is crime rate again you say? Crime rate is measured by the number of crimes in […]
First of all what is a crime rate? A crime rate is a way of measuring crime relative to the size of the population in a given area. So if for example a given area had a population of 100 and there were 100 crimes over 12 months, that would represent a very high crime […]
UKCrimeStats is excited to now offer subscribers a new metric – Crime per Hectare. To explain; In the history of crime statistics. First came total crime per given area. The shortcoming of this were that areas varied hugely in size and population. Then came crime rate – a way of deflating the impact of crime relative […]
One of the unique capabilities of UKCrimeStats is the ability to ask of the data, which type of area, across the given area had the most, least, biggest increase/decrease, of this that or all types of crime weighted for daytime or residential population. We can do this with almost everything where the data is available. […]
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, […]
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 […]
We have introduced another free facility on UKCrimeStats. All valid postcodes across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are now matched to Lower Layer Super Output Areas and Northern Ireland Super Output Areas and percent-ranked according to crime rate – crimes per 1,000 residents over the last 24 months. We think this is the easiest way […]
We don’t hang around on UKCrimeStats – police.uk finally released the data on the 2nd May and we have updated our website now. There were 27,000 new locations – of which more later. The main point is the clear seasonal impact of good weather for March 2012 – lots of sunshine, less rain and hotter […]
Of course our site – www.ukcrimestats.com – is about British crime statistics, but we can’t ignore what’s happening in America. The big picture is that nationwide in the USA, crime has fallen a lot and continues to fall even through the recession and on the way out. The hard question is why? As this flies […]