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How safe is the area you live in?
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Crime in the Media
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How safe is the area you live in?
TV, radio and newspapers regularly report crimes
and crime statistics.
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How safe is the area you live in?
Where in the UK is the safest place to live?
Are the crime figures as bad as some of the
newspapers suggest?
In which areas of the UK is crime increasing?
What are the crime figures like in your area?
Are crime figures increasing each year?
Which places are improving?
Where is the crime capital of the UK?
Should people be more/less concerned about
certain crimes?
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Eight categories
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How safe is the area you live in?
Each year the Government records around five
million crimes. The numbers are collected by the
Police Force and by the British Crime Survey.
BurglaryCriminal damageDrug offencesFraud
ForgeryRobberySexual offencesTheftViolence
BurglaryCriminal damageDFraud
ForgeryRobberySexual offencesTheftViolence
Crimes are usually sorted into eight main
groups.Can you work out whichgroups these are?
There is a ninth group containing other crimes.
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Eight categories
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How safe is the area you live in?
When crime statistics are reported, newspapers
and other media concentrate on particular crimes
BurglaryCriminal damageDrug offencesFraud
ForgeryRobberySexual offencesTheftViolence
These are called the Six Key Crimes.
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Key Crimes
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How safe is the area you live in?
When crime statistics are reported, newspapers
and other media concentrate on particular crimes
These are called the Six Key Crimes.
BurglaryRobberySexual offencesTheft from a
vehicleTheft of a vehicleViolence
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Which approach
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How safe is the area you live in?
The question how safe is your area can be
looked at in two ways- by finding out the actual
crime figures and by looking at how worried
people are about crime.
Which approach will you use?
Local crime figures
Peoples perceptions of crime
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A fair comparison
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How safe is the area you live in?
Some parts of the country are more heavily
populated than others. This can mean big
differences in the crime statistics!
North Yorkshire, in 2004, recorded4 936
burglaries.
South Yorkshire,in 2004, recorded13 455
burglaries
760 000 people live here.
1 270 000 people live here.
11 burglaries per 1000 people
65 burglaries per 1000 people
For us to compare these in a fair way, crimes are
reported for each area based on one thousand
people.
For us to compare these in a fair way, crimes are
reported for each area
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National average
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How safe is the area you live in?
Someone has collected some local data for four
crimes Drugs, Burglary, Vehicle Theft and
Violence.
Which crime do you think goes with which bar on
the bar chart?
Can you tell if this is a high crime area?
What other data would help you to say if this is
a high crime area?
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Some possible questions
How many crimes occur where you live?
What are the most occurring crimes where you live?
Crime Statistics for your Local Area
Is where you live a high or low crime area?
Crime Statistics for other areas
What information do we need to be able to
answerthese questions?
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Data sources
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Where can we get suitable data...
Newspapers (Local National)
Local Police
CrimeStatistics.org.uk
Sheets are available from your teacher for each
region/local area covering 2004/05.
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CrimeStats.org.uk
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Where can we get suitable data...
The Governments database of crimes can be found
at www.CrimeStatistics.org.uk.
Note Data for one year is broken down into
groups of three months.
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Which data
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What data shall we collect?
Which (key) crimes will you investigate?
What is your local area?
What data will you collect for your local area?
Which other areas will you collect crime data for?
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Time to get some data!
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Which area
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How safe is the area you live in?
Click on a region to see which counties are
grouped together for crime statistics
North East
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Yorkshire the Humber
North West
East Midlands
West Midlands
East
Wales
London
South West
South East
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North East
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How safe is the area you live in?
Crime Statistics for
North EastClevelandDurhamNorthumbriaYorkshire
the HumberHumbersideNorth YorkshireSouth
YorkshireWest Yorkshire
Data is also available for these individual
regions and can even be searched via postcode.
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East Midlands
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Crime Statistics for the East Midlands
DerbyshireLeicestershireLincolnshireNorthantsN
ottinghamshire
Data is also available for these individual
regions and can even be searched via postcode.
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East
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Crime Statistics for the East
BedfordshireCambridgeshireEssexHertfordshireNo
rfolkSuffolk
Data is also available for these individual
regions and can even be searched via postcode.
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South East
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How safe is the area you live in?
Crime Statistics for the South East
HampshireKentSurreySussexThames Valley
Data is also available for these individual
regions and can even be searched via postcode.
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South West
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How safe is the area you live in?
Crime Statistics for the South West
Avon SomersetDevon CornwallDorsetGloucester
shireWiltshire
Data is also available for these individual
regions and can even be searched via postcode.
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Wales
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How safe is the area you live in?
Crime Statistics for Wales
Dyfed-PowysGwentNorth WalesSouth Wales
Data is also available for these individual
regions and can even be searched via postcode.
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West Midlands
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How safe is the area you live in?
Crime Statistics for the West Midlands
StaffordshireWarwickshireWest MerciaWest
Midlands
Data is also available for these individual
regions and can even be searched via postcode.
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North West
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How safe is the area you live in?
Crime Statistics for the North West
CheshireCumbriaLancashireGreater
ManchesterMerseyside
Data is also available for these individual
regions and can even be searched via postcode.
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London
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How safe is the area you live in?
Crime Statistics for London
City of LondonMetropolitan Police Authority
Data is also available for these individual
regions and can even be searched via postcode.
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Using Crime Statistics
Here is some data collected on four crimes for
parts of the East Midlands and the whole country.
Lets make these easier to compare by calculating
the number of crimes per thousand people.
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Using Crime Statistics
Number of crimes
1247
X 1000
Crimes per thousand
Population
73230
Crimes per thousand 1247 73230 1000
17.0 (for Violence)
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Using Crime Statistics
Number of crimes
X 1000
Crimes per thousand
Population
Burglary
Robbery
Vehicle theft (of)
Violence
Population
2004-05
403
18
302
1,247
73,230
Bolsover
0.2
4.1
5.5
17.0
586
65
231
2,111
99,500
Chesterfield
0.7
2.3
5.9
21.2
321,458
88,704
241,815
1,034,552
52,793,890
All of England
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6.1
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Repeating this for all of the data in this table
How can we make the data in this table easier to
display?
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Using Crime Statistics
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Discussion
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How safe is the area you live in?
Which crimes did you investigate for your local
area?
How often do these particular crimes occur?
How do these figures compare with the regional
and/or national average?
Do you live in a high or low crime area?
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Discussion
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How safe is the area you live in?
By answering these main questions, you might have
noticed or thought of other questions you could
ask about crime. Here are some examples of
additional questions that people sometimes come
up with
Which crimes are people most worried about?
Where is the worst area in the UK for
crime? (Which crime(s) should we use to determine
worst?)
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The Problem Solving Approach
You could continue here...
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Have you got all the evidence you want?
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Some possible questions
Which crimes are people most worried about where
you live?
Does a persons feelings (perception) about crime
have anything to do with their age or gender?
What type of information will help us
answerthese questions?
Questionnaire/Survey
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Data sources
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Where can we get suitable data...
on how worried people are about crimes?
A survey which we design
British Crime Survey
CensusAtSchool.ntu.ac.uk
Which already has real data from a survey of
school pupils.
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Questionnaire on crime
Which (key) crimes will you ask about?
So that people can rate some crimes as being more
worrying than others, what scale will you use?
As well as each person's opinions, what other
information about them will you collect?
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Time to get some data
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Time to get some data!
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What processing?
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Using Crime Statistics
Once we have collected our data, how can we use
it to solve each problem?
Which crimes are people worried about where you
live?
Being mugged
What would be a helpful way of displaying these
results?
Very worried
Fairly worried
Not very worried
Not at all
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How safe is the area you live in?
Here are a random sample of results from a
questionnaire of pupils (living in the South West
of England).
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Having something stolen
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31
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Which is the mode (modal) result?
18
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Being mugged
How could these be converted into percentages?
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How safe is the area you live in?
Here are a random sample of results from a
questionnaire of pupils (living in the South West
of England).
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Victim of violence
18
26
20
29
11
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6
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Being Insulted
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How safe is the area you live in?
Lets use the pie charts to get a quick picture
of the pupils answers from the questionnaire.
Property stolen
Being insulted
Victim of violence
Being mugged
What similarities/differences can you see in
these charts?
Which of these crimes are pupils most worried
about?
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How safe is the area you live in?
These two crimes show a similar set of responses
from pupils.
For each, more than half are either fairly or
very worried
Victim of violence
Being mugged
Together 55
Together 58
What do these crimes have in common?
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How safe is the area you live in?
Which types of crimes did you investigate?
What can you say about peoples perceptions for
each type of crime?
Are there any patterns you have noticed about the
opinions people have given?
You now have an idea of how worried people are
about particular crimes. But how common are these
crimes in your area? Should people in your area
really be worried about these crimes?
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How safe is the area you live in?
If you do want to compare the questionnaire
results with real crime data for your area then
you need to collect some suitable data.
You will need to start a new data handling cycle
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The Problem Solving Approach
You now need to continue
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You are now here.
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Have you got all the evidence you want?