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Summary information

Study title

Econometric Analysis of Recorded Offences in England & Wales, 1961, 1966, 1971

Creator

Stern, N., University of Warwick, Department of Economics
Carr-Hill, R. A., University of Oxford, St Catherine's College

Study number / PID

834 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-834-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.


To examine various theories of the generation of a number of recorded offences (including deterrence, theft opportunities and police recording practices), the proportion `solved' and the number of policemen.
Main Topics:

Variables
Indictable offences, breaking and entering offences, 'clear up' rate, conviction rate, severity of punishment, no. of policemen, proportion of young males, proportion of working/ middle-class, total rateable value per area, expenditure per officer, proportion of violent offences, population density, total population, proportion of households with less than 0.5 persons per room, proportion of area urbanised, unemployment.

Topics

Crime and law enforcement

Keywords

AGEBURGLARYCONVICTIONS (LEGAL)CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONCRIMINALSEXPENDITUREJUDGMENTS (LAW)MENOFFENCESPOLICE SERVICESPOPULATIONPOPULATION DENSITY
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Methodology

Data collection period

Not available

Country

England and Wales

Time dimension

Time Series

Analysis unit

Offences
National
Criminal offences

Universe

Recorded offences in a cross-section of police districts in England and Wales in 1961, 1966 and 1971

Sampling procedure

See documentation for further details.

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Compilation of published data. (The proportion of crimes `solved' or `cleared-up' were supplied by the Home Office.)

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1980

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Related publications

  • Hope, K., Carr-Hill, R. and Stern, N. (1977) 'Theory and estimation in models of crime and its social control and their relations to concepts of social output' in M. Feldstein and R. Inman (eds.), : Macmillan.
  • Stern, N. and Carr-Hill, R. (1979) Crime, The police and criminal statistics: Academic Press.
  • Carr-Hill, R. and Stern, N. (1973) 'An econometric model of the supply and control of recorded offences in England and Wales', Journal of Public Economics