Violence and the crime drop
Journal article
Authors | Ganpat, Soenita, Garius, Laura, Andromachi, Tseloni and Tilley, Nick |
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Abstract | According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, violence fell dramatically between 1995 and 2013/14. To improve understanding of the fall in violent crime, this study examines long-term crime trends in England and Wales over the past two decades, by scrutinizing the trends between (a) stranger and acquaintance violence (b) severity of violence, (c) age groups, and (d) sexes. It draws on nationally-representative, weighted data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, and examines prevalence, incidence and crime concentration trends. The overall violence fall was driven by a decline in the victimisation of young individuals and/or males, perpetrated by acquaintances since 1995. Stranger and acquaintance violence followed different trajectories, with the former beginning to drop post 2003/04. Falls in both stranger and acquaintance violence incidence rates were led by fewer victims over time. Counting all incidents reported by the same victim (instead of capping at five incidents) significantly affects trends in stranger violence but not in acquaintance violence In relation to the distributive justice within the crime drop, this study provides unique evidence of equitable falls in acquaintance violence but inequitable falls in stranger violence. These findings highlight the need to examine violence types separately and point to a number of areas for future research. |
Keywords | Violence trends, crime drop, age, sex, crime concentration, crime risk |
Year | 2020 |
Journal | European Journal of Criminology |
Publisher | Sage |
ISSN | 1477-3708 |
1741-2609 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370820913456 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624800 |
hdl:10545/624800 | |
Publication dates | 15 May 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 22 May 2020, 09:45 |
Accepted | 26 Dec 2019 |
Contributors | University of Derby, Nottingham Trent University and University College London |
File | File Access Level Open |
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