{"id":21,"date":"2011-05-31T07:31:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T07:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2011-05-31T07:31:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T07:31:14","slug":"hard-times-fewer-crimes-in-the-usa-what-about-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/31\/hard-times-fewer-crimes-in-the-usa-what-about-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard times, fewer crimes in the USA – what about Britain?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A must read in-depth article<\/a> in today’s Europe edition of the Wall Street Journal (online a few days ago) about the recession in America not<\/strong> leading to an increase in crime when unemployment doubled from 5 to 10% and exploring the reasons why. Some of the answers; a lot more people in prison, a decline in lead-fuelled petrol, less cocaine use and more hot-spot policing.<\/p>\n

Our monthly data only goes back to December 2010 so we would not be able to display a relationship or not between rising unemployment and crime. If anything, over the last 5 months – see National Picture – we have seen crime rising during the economic recovery with a small drop in April, I suspect due to the number of public holidays and the Royal Wedding. Unemployment actually fell in the UK for the first 3 months of 2011<\/a>.\u00a0 However, in the near future, we would like to explore the static relationship between unemployment rates in constituencies and their overall crime rates. I’m wondering how much of a relationship there would be there either – we already know that some of the richest constituencies have some of the highest number of crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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