Workshop A: Measuring crime and the fear of crime Case study: New Cross Gate NDC National data – local knowledge NDC National Evaluation

Measuring crime and the fear of crime Examples from New Cross Gate NDC Steve Broome, Evaluation and Strategy Manager 5 December 2006

This presentation Notifiable crime Experience of crime Fear of crime Additional data New Cross Gate NDC

Notifiable offences Notifiable Offences New Cross Gate NDCLewisham % change ( to ) Offences per 1000 pop ( ) % change ( to ) Offences per 1000 pop ( ) Burglary Criminal Damage Drugs Fraud or Forgery Other Notifiable Offences Robbery Sexual Offences Theft and Handling Violence Against the Person Total1,4041,4191,4341,4511, % change in NXG crime stats needed to reach LBL level (at current rates)-16.8 New Cross Gate NDC

Notifiable offences New Cross Gate NDC

Notifiable offences Temporal analysis – identifying spikes in offending Geographical analysis – locating hotspots  theft 4pm – 6pm along main high street  burglary on isolated estate 8pm – 10pm  robbery 12am – 2am outside late night venue New Cross Gate NDC

Crime and fear of crime New Cross Gate NDC

Crime and fear of crime Fear of crime: burglary  White ethnic groups, particularly older people, fearful of having home broken into Experience of crime: burglary  Economically inactive and low income households most likely to suffer break-ins New Cross Gate NDC

Additional data Geo-coded data – can the MORI and SDRC be broken down into neighbourhoods within NDC areas? Time series – can the longitudinal element of the MORI survey be provided to track individual answers from 2002 to 2004 to 2006? Data on concentration of victimisation Data from local research very important – when and where crime and fear of crime occur, impact on behaviour, local solutions New Cross Gate NDC