Trends in Police-recorded Offences

Gruszczyńska, Beata; Heiskanen, Markku

doi:10.1007/s10610-011-9160-0

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“…In general, the increases and decreases shown in conviction statistics are smaller than the ones shown in police statistics. 16 These trends are consistent with the ones found by studies covering shorter time series but using larger samples of countries Linde 2010, 2012a, b, c;Gruszczyńska and Heiskanen 2012).…”

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Is There a Relationship Between Imprisonment and Crime in Western Europe?

Aebi

Linde

Delgrande

2015

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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This article examines the evolution of prison populations in Western Europe from 1982 to 2011 and its relation with recorded crime trends in the region. Data are taken mainly from the Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics in the case of prison statistics and the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics in the case of police and conviction statistics, both complemented with the Nordic Criminal Statistics and Eurostat Crime Statistics.The results show that prison populations rates (stock) rose constantly until 2005 and seem relatively stable since then. On the contrary, the annual flow of entries into penal institutions has decreased almost continuously since 1987. This apparent paradox is explained by the fact that the average length of detention has steadily increased during the whole period under study. In brief, less people are sent to prison each year, but they remain in prison for longer periods of time. The upward trend in the average length of detention is related to the development of tough on crime policies across Western Europe and to the increase of drug offences and non-lethal violent crime until the mid-2000s. In that context, an analysis by offence shows similar trends in police, conviction, and prison statistics. These results falsify the hypothesis of total independence between crime trends and imprisonment rates. They also suggest that the deterrent effect of imprisonment has often been overestimated, and they cast a shadow on the validity of criminological theories that place property as the main cause of crime.

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Section: Crime Trendssupporting

confidence: 76%

Is There a Relationship Between Imprisonment and Crime in Western Europe?

Aebi

Linde

Delgrande

2015

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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“…Additionally, according to ESB statistics (Aebi et al 2014), while the rate of crime in 20 countries in Europe has decreased from 2007 to 2011, the rate in Cyprus is among those 13 countries that have increased. As accepted by Gruszczyńska and Heiskanen (2012), crime trends are different in various areas.…”

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Crime Assessment in Cyprus during the Period 2003-2013 and Identification of the Main Causes

Kokkinos¹

2019

AJSS

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This paper explores crime rates in Cyprus during the period 2003-2013 and identifies the main factors causing crime tendencies. Criminal statistics, based on official police recorded data, show divergent trends, as a result of the several events taking place concerning the economy, the political and social life, not only in Cyprus but worldwide. Apart from the legislation changes and the introduction of new laws, these events are especially the opening of the crossing points in the UN-patrolled buffer zone separating the Turkish-occupied northern part of Cyprus from the free areas of the Republic of Cyprus in 2003, the accession of Cyprus in the European Union in 2004 and the global economic crisis that appeared in 2009. Even though there are different tendencies for specific types of offences, in general recorded crime in Cyprus gradually increases reaching the peak in 2011. The patterns in crime reflected by the socioeconomic factors are a warning of the change of Cyprus' small society and a challenge to policy makers in the mission of crime prevention.

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“…9 The overall crime rate shows a downward trend because it is heavily influenced by property offences, which represent the vast majority of recorded crimes (Aebi and Linde, 2012, 2014; Aebi et al., 2015). In Central and Eastern Europe the evolution is similar, but the decrease in property crime started only in the 2000s while assault and rape stabilized by the mid-2000s (Gruszczyńska and Heiskanen, 2011; Šelih and Završnik, 2012).…”

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Have community sanctions and measures widened the net of the European criminal justice systems?

Aebi

Delgrande

Marguet

2015

Punishment & Society

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Analysing the evolution of imprisonment and community sanctions in Europe from 1990 to 2010 this article tests whether community sanctions have been used as alternatives to imprisonment or as supplementary sanctions. The results show that both the number of persons serving community sanctions and the number of inmates have continuously increased in almost all European countries during the period studied. A comparison with the evolution of crime rates shows that the latter cannot explain such trends and suggests that, instead of being alternatives to imprisonment, community sanctions have contributed to widening the net of the European criminal justice systems. The analyses also show a wide diversity in the use of community sanctions across Europe where, in 2010, the ratio between inmates and persons serving community sanctions varied from 2:1 to 1:3. In a comparative perspective, Finland, Norway and Switzerland seem to have found a reasonable balance between the use of imprisonment and community sanctions.

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Trends in Police-recorded Offences

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

Is There a Relationship Between Imprisonment and Crime in Western Europe?

Is There a Relationship Between Imprisonment and Crime in Western Europe?

Crime Assessment in Cyprus during the Period 2003-2013 and Identification of the Main Causes

Have community sanctions and measures widened the net of the European criminal justice systems?

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