30 years of Recorded Crime versus the British Crime Survey
Which of these is correct? The answer has got to be both and neither of them. I don’t think you’ll ever get 100% capture of all the crimes … Continue reading
Month: July 2011
UKCrimeStats back online and updated to June 2011
Thanks to everybody for your patience while we moved our server. I’m pleased to say that we are back and running 48 hours earlier than anticipated – so a special thanks to our Chief Data Architect. Memo to the … Continue reading
UkCrimeStats will be down this weekend . .
Just in case you missed the big red sign at the top of the page, we wanted to give you advance warning the site will be going down from tomorrow midday to Sunday 31st July 6 pm. Actually, it … Continue reading
The 4 different types of Robbery . . .
Very interesting comment by Fred in the post below which I’ve replied to and look forward to his response. By the way, we don’t mind at all if you prefer to post comments under another name. I reckon it’s a … Continue reading
The USA has 3 times as many criminal offences as the UK
I was staggered yesterday to learn that according to a 2008 study by retired Louisiana State University law professor John Baker, the USA has an estimated 4,500 crimes in federal statutes. But I was only really surprised because I had … Continue reading
Vehicle crime – what are the different types?
So now we’re onto vehicle crime – of which there were 36,283 in May 2011 across England and Wales. Nearly all of us have been victim of some sort of vehicle crime. I can think of three incidents that … Continue reading
Launch of UKCrimeStats Forum
Today we launch the UKCrimeStats Forum ! http://www.ukcrimestats.com/forum/ Each week, UkCrimeStats is reaching new records in popularity (visitors, impressions and emails) and from the very start we have wanted to embrace an open, social networked approach to an … Continue reading
Burglary – what are the different burglary offence types?
Once again, thanks to the NPIA for the data. After ASB incidents and Other crime, Burglary is the next most numerous category in our National Picture page – with 43,052 burglaries across England and Wales in May 2011. So what … Continue reading
Exactly what falls under “Other” crime? Answer: 1,293 different offences !
This is the second most populated category on our National Picture page with over 193,000 Other crimes for May 2011. You may be staggered to find out though that under Other falls a voluminous 1,293 different types of offences. … Continue reading
Exactly what are ASB incidents?
A very special thanks to the National Policing Improvement Agency who have shared with us the underlying breakdown of Crimes and ASB incidents allocated to the six very broad categories we are given Crime and ASB data on. These are; … Continue reading