Criminology Report: UK Crime Trends and Data Analysis

This report provides an analysis of crime statistics in the UK, focusing on data collected from police records and the Crime Survey for England and Wales. It explores the methodologies used for data collection, including administrative data and sample surveys, highlighting the differences between reported and actual crimes. The report examines the role of the Crime Survey for England and Wales in providing insights into crime levels, identifying unreported crimes, and understanding the nature of offenses. It discusses the strengths and limitations of both police-recorded crime data and crime surveys, emphasizing their importance in understanding long-term crime trends. The report concludes by acknowledging the significance of comprehensive data collection for effective crime management and policy development. The report is contributed by a student to be published on the website Desklib, a platform which provides all the necessary AI based study tools for students.

Thinking about crime

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The Crime is mainly the illegal activity that is being taken with the individual that can
affect the society and the personal individuality of a human. Criminology deals with all the
aspects and the studies relating to the issues that can be laid out in the criminal activities and
engagement (Felson, and Eckert, 2017). In UK they search out various laws and actions that are
being taken by the police in order to maintain the lawful area in the society and also to provide a
legal security to the individuals. This report will cover and analysis and statistics regarding to the
crimes that are being recorded by the police and a debate regarding to all the relatable issues for
the crime survey for England and Wales.
TASK 1
It is very essential to take the data of the criminals and crime so that the true
understanding can be taken relating to commission of crimes and offences in UK. There are two
methods in which the data can be collected which includes firstly the administrative data that
includes prosecution or the court record, police recorded crimes and the prison data while second
method is the sample survey method which includes the victimization survey, self- reporting,
corruption survey, etc. The former provides the information relating to the reported crimes, that
is, the offences that are being reported to the judicial authorities. Generally, there are two types
of crime which is reported and which are actual. The former is the one which is recorded by the
judicial authorities while the latter is the one which are undetected or not recorded by police or
any of the authority.
It is believed that the crime statistics which are recorded by crime survey and police must
be independent and robust so that the true insight of the crimes is taken. There must be quality of
the data recorded so that the people ad especially, the government can get understanding of every
aspect of crime in order to enact such laws or policies which are beneficial for the curbing the
number of offences in the England (Blagg, and Anthony, 2019).
The crime survey for the England and Wales is very essential to the government as it
helps in taking the true insight and understanding of the crime level. It helps in identifying as to
which crimes are left unreported. The crime surveys include both reported and reported crimes

while the police records contain only the reported one. It helps in giving the valuable information
relating to nature of offence like timing or location of the crime, the features of the offender, any
relationship of the accused and victims and many others. There are many policies being enacted
in order to make sure that there is better understanding of the crimes (Koeber, and Oberwittler,
2019).
The crime in the England and Wales statistical bulletin gives an insight about the detailed
information on various kinds of offences on quarterly basis and by making use of the two sources
of crime data which includes the police recorded crimes and the telephone operated crime survey
for the England and Wales. It is mainly designed in order to allow the authorities to measure the
crime continuously during a specific time period. It is aimed to state the estimate of the kinds of
crimes and what population it mainly covers. It does not cover the offences which are committed
against the household residents or business and excludes also the crimes and homicide which are
termed as the victimless. It estimates for the crimes which occur less frequently so it is less likely
to be prone to the volatility and is less reliable. It does not include detecting bigger aggregated
totals of crimes so it makes difficult to detect any of the trends of short term basis. It is aimed to
collect information on the long term trends. It does not include the short term trends so it lacks it
which makes their data less reliable in terms of covering every crime. It is very important for the
authorities who collect the criminal statistics to cover every aspect of crime and each of the
offence so that the true culture is provided to everyone about what crimes are committed and
what type of characteristics the offender holds (Deflem, and Silva, 2019). These are carried out
on annual basis. Earlier it included the face to face interview with the victim so that the whole
experience of the victim can be taken into consideration so that the information and data
collected can be made more reliably but due to the pandemic of Covid-19, this has been not
included nowadays in order to carry on the protocols of governments to maintain social
distancing. Hence, it can be said that the crime survey of the England and Wales is the reliable
indicator only for the long term trends. In simple words, it is focused only on the crimes which
are experienced mainly by the general population and this survey remains unaffected by the
changes in the police activity or reporting rates and involves the unreported crimes. So its
reliability is high as it covers both reported and non-reported crimes and that too those offences
which are experience by majority of people.

Police recorded crimes are mainly those which are being investigated subsequently by the
police officer that are been lodged in the police station for further investigations. All such crime
mainly rely on all the important areas and the methods through which they try to implement and
frame The working Andy issues that the crime is being generated and conducted. The police
usually cover the crime that are being recorded in the police station as the FIR are is being
lodged but other than that they usually do not create any important survey regarding to the
working areas and also to the methods through which the telephone operated train service of
England and Wales is being covered. The victimisation methodology in order to maintain out
The criminal conducts police used to be an important part (Weinborn and et. al., 2017).
All the Police recorded crimes used to cover the victimisation of the survey data in
which they includes the rare crimes like the Homo sites in all the victimless crime from age to 18
to 64. But there by police do not used to cover all the data is that is usually being covered and not
being reported to the police stations in the crime net or not being recorded or all such crime
which used to cover and recorded in the misdemeanours with the crimes that are being conducted
in the abroad. As this make it a weak Section for all the criminal justice system. As they do not
actually provide a proper start article reason and the estimated areas through which the crime is
being conducted and recorded.
The government used to maintain all the statistics for the crime in which they used to
cover the crime service in which the police recorded crimes can be figured out as an independent
religion. There has been analysed all the crimes that are being recorded by the police as a crime
that are being raised by the victims by the service and all the public holding forces through
which the operational areas of the country is being concerned. It it mainly covers out the
outcomes through which the framework of the important areas of working is being and
endmeanour (ithin Texas, 2020). The government used to maintain proper policies and reforms
in which all the quality of crime recording is being maintained for the important police
administration committee it is being analysed all the important areas of Home Secretary and the
nature through which they can increase the proper static reason in the survey for the crime can be
aptitude it
Thus, Police recorded crimes are usually being covered as a weaker section as there are
so many crimes that are not being considered and are being in the eye of government as they

were not being recorded. All the crime records that are being given by the police is not that
authenticated and cannot be trusted as on the survey because there are so many criminal
activities being taken and the individuals are being harmed on a daily basis manner.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above essay that crime is used to cover out all the offences and
the issues that are being related to the criminal activities. In order to administer it is important to
provide a proper sample survey through which the administration of data is being made. Crime
survey provides out all the reported crimes that are being recorded by the police and all the
surveys that used to cover by the government. Further it is also concluded that the crime survey
used to cover out a long-term trend through which they used to implicate the unaffected changes
for the activities that are covered in reporting rates.
REFERENCES
Books and Journals
ithin Texas, F.M.W., 2020. Prisoners Helping Prisoners Comparative
Criminology. Change, 64(5), pp.470-497.
Deflem, M. and Silva, D.M. eds., 2019. Methods of Criminology and Criminal Justice Research.
Emerald Publishing Limited.
Blagg, H. and Anthony, T., 2019. Decolonising criminology: Imagining justice in a postcolonial
world. Springer Nature.
Felson, M. and Eckert, M.A., 2017. Introductory criminology: The study of risky situations.
Routledge.
Koeber, G. and Oberwittler, D., 2019. How older people became less afraid of crime—An age-
period-cohort analysis using repeated cross-sectional survey data. Social science
research, 79, pp.211-225.
Weinborn and et. al., 2017. Hotspots vs. harmspots: Shifting the focus from counts to harm in the
criminology of place. Applied geography, 86, pp.226-244.