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We are growing our data portfolio for you. Whenever you now look up a postcode, it is automatically linked to energy consumption data on a sister site of UKCrimeStats – the energy postcode app of Future Energy Strategies. Basically, we have postcode centroids matched to 4 years of annual gas and electricity consumption by lower […]
There is a relationship, Taylor’s Law, that has the potential to reveal crime data manipulation. This is useful considering Tom Winsor of HMIC told the Home Affairs Select Committee last year, that the questions of whether officers are fiddling data is “where, how much (and) how severe”. Before exploring these issues, I should explain that […]
As always, if you see anything that looks awry or a bit odd, don’t hesitate to get in touch and let us know.
Using shape-matched data from UKCrimeStats, a fascinating paper was recently published online here – Fluctuation Scaling, Taylor’s Law and Crime. We will be publishing shortly an article by one of the authors, Quentin Hanley of Nottingham Trent University about the paper and what it all means.
We have just updated for July 2014. At this time of year, the stand-out hotspots across the country tend to be music festivals for drug crime when looking for biggest change month on month. So we had Glastonbury in June and the “Global Gathering” in Stratford-Upon-Avon in July. Of course they stand out because for […]
You might think postcodes are simple but they are not. So many people use out of date or obsolete postcodes without knowing it. At UKCrimeStats, we have not just the standard 1.7 million live postcodes, but 700,000 obsolete ones too. We have also just added an additional 70,000 new postcodes that have been released. Keeping […]
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 […]
Ok, we’ve uploaded Scottish crime data. Compared to England, Wales and Northern Ireland, it’s very much less detailed. No categorisation of crime type, totals over a whole year (2007-08 and 2011-12) matched to Scottish Datazone. So what this means is that you can type in a Scottish postcode to the searchbox and it will automatically […]
As we are the only aggregators of the crime data, our monthly updates take a little bit longer here at UKCrimeStats and we like to check things through and ask questions which is one of our analytical USPs. We now have about 18.5 million crimes and ASB incidents, spread out over a bit more than a million […]