Description

Crime counts are statistical records collected mostly by the government bodies at the street, neighbourhood, or city levels. These are straightforward indicators of crime and useful to localize the events and categories of events. Practitioners governing or designing NBS may use this indicator in making tactical decisions (Bella et al 2015). For each crime category (rape, assault, theft, robbery etc), total number of incidents at a specific NBS, street, neighbourhood, or city can be collected, Average number of events per locality can be calculated as well.

Feelings of personal security have been raised across many of the surveys assessed for this project, including the Humankind Index, where one participant warned that ‘[i]f you are always watching your back, it saps your energy, you're not living your life as you're that busy worrying.’ 50 It was cited by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)’s Equality Monitoring Framework, as well as during the Oxfam Doughnut workshop. It was also identified in the initial scoping based on government submissions to Rio+20.

Scale as linked to D2.2 framework

• City
• Neighborhood

Data source [ link to data framework]

• Statistical Records from Governmental Bodies (UK example: The Crime Survey for England and Wales)

Data Needs

• Risk of victimization

Expected Outputs

• Numerical value
• Graphic

Calculation methods

• Frequency Counts (e.g. Percentage of adults by gender reporting having been victims of crime in the 12 months to June 2014) 

Links and references

• https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/344550/rr-uk-doughnut-environmental-sustainability-social-justice-190215-en.pdf?sequence=7