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Researching social life - robbery and snatch theft.
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John Davies SOCSO1053: RESEARCHING SOCIAL LIFE Assignment 1 The Criminal Statistics for England and Wales are published annually, with regular bulletin reports in between, they are produced to examine the extent of crime on a national scale enabling agencies of the criminal justice system to tackle the social problems which crime causes, and focus on problem regions. These figures are compiled by putting together the offences recorded by the police in each of the police areas in England and Wales. The street crime initiative, which I chose to look at, was an initiative by the Labour government to get 'tough on crime and the causes of crime'. The set of statistics I looked at are shown in the table below, Robbery and snatch theft combined: April compared to August (4 week periods) April 2002 August 2002 Net Change % Change Metropolitan Police 5,004 4,576 -428 -9% West Midlands 1,332 962 -360 -27% Greater Manchester 1,252 992 -260 -21% Merseyside 402 394 -8 -2% West Yorkshire 684 536 -148 -22% Avon and Somerset 434 346 -88 -20% Thames Valley 331 265 -66 -20% Nottinghamshire 277 271 -6 -2% South Yorkshire 246 185 -61 -25% Lancashire 158 173 +15 +9% Total 10 forces 10,110 8,700 -1,410 -14% (This statistical data was obtained from www.crimereduction.gov.uk) The statistics were...
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