Over the past few weeks I have spent a bit of time exploring police recorded crime trends before and after the UK-wide lockdown.
There has been talk of lockdowns representing the largest criminological experiment in history.
Understanding what has happened to crime during lockdown is challenging. We are in uncharted territory and it’s proving hard to draw definitive conclusions from the latest police recorded crime data.
On a day-to-day basis, the exposure citizens have to the police is often fleeting, with officers passing by in a blur as they respond to emergency calls. Official crime figures can be disputed, but the long-term trend appears to be that levels of crime in England and Wales are heading downward.
Paper using Google Street View data to investigate the extent to which the physical attributes of residential homes contribute to the risk of burglary. Please feel free to contact me for a copy if you do not have access!