6.1.1 CC - Crime Counts

Version 1.1 by Emily West on 2022/01/06 17:00

Topic	Urban challenges	Sub-challenges
Social	6 - People Security	6.1 - Control of Crime

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.
Scale as linked to D2.2 framework	City Neighborhood Street
Data source [ link to data framework]	Statistical Records from Governmental Bodies
Needs	Police or Government records
Expected Outputs	Numerical value Graphic
Calculation methods	Frequency Counts
Links and references	Ambrey, Christopher L et al (2014) “Perception or Reality, What Matters Most when it comes to crime in your neighbourhood?” Social Indicators Research, 119, 877- 896. Bella, Enrico di, Matteo Corsi and Lucia Leporatti (2015) “A Multi-indicator Approach for Smart Security Policy Making,” Social Indicator Research, 122, 653-675.