UK becoming a safer place

Tom Bombadil

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Jibrovia

• Apr 24, 2013

• #1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22275280

A bit of good news to brighten up the day, though I'm sure people will find something in the report to get upset about.

 

spring hall convert

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• Apr 24, 2013

• #2

The bullet points are food for thought though.

- Extreme poverty is the factor most closely associated with violence
- The number of police officers had no correlation to levels of peace
- Fear of crime is greater than the reality: 25% of Britons think they will be a victim of crime, but only 4% will experience crime
- The UK homicide rate is now roughly equivalent to the Western European average and at its lowest level since 1978
- But UK violent crime rate is significantly higher than the European average

 

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LONGTIME DIEHARD

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THE PROMISED LAND-SUSSEX

• Apr 24, 2013

• #3

There's also the way that crime is being recorded or not recorded that affects the final figures.

 

spring hall convert

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• Apr 24, 2013

• #4

Point taken but undoubtedly, the following is good news.

The research by the international non-profit research organisation comes as a separate study by Cardiff University suggests the number of people treated in hospital in England and Wales after violent incidents fell by 14% in 2012.

 

dingodan

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• Apr 24, 2013

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We has made 10,000 tractors already in this month, Comrade.

 

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• Apr 24, 2013

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Voroshilov said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22275280

A bit of good news to brighten up the day, though I'm sure people will find something in the report to get upset about.

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However, Prof Marian Fitzgerald, visiting professor of criminology at the University of Kent, voiced caution, saying she believed the report was based on "two fundamental misconceptions".




"First of all it keeps saying 'isn't it amazing that despite the recession violence has gone down'. Actually, any serous criminologist knows that violence goes down in a recession because most violence is relatively low-level violence and most of it is associated with the late-night economy," she said.




"So when people don't have money to go out, get tanked up, start having fights, violence goes down.




"The other flaw in this is... they said that they took as their starting point in this as 2003 because the rules on how you counted crime changed at that point.




"What they don't seem to have understood is that those changes meant there was an artificial spike in crime in 2003."