In the 2023/24 reporting year, the crime rate for Greater Manchester was 114.6 crimes per 1,000 population, a decline on the previous year, when the crime rate was at its highest for the recorded time period.

In the 2023/24 reporting year, Greater Manchester Police reported 333,630 crime offences, of which 129,184 were violence against the person offences, the most common type of crime in this reporting year.

In the 2023/24 reporting year, Greater Manchester Police reported 333,630 crime offences, compared with 369,853 in the previous year. During this time period, the number of crimes reported was highest in 2022/23.

This dataset recorded the monthly crime incidents across Greater Manchester in the UK throughout 2016. There were a total of 362,115 recorded crimes, across 14 categories of crime in the dataset of 2016. The fields of the data include ‘Month’, ‘Reported by’,','Falls within', 'Longitude', 'Latitude','Location', 'LSOA code', 'LSOA name', 'Crime type’.Note: when you test the GTWCLQ software package using this provided dataset, the RAM of your PC should be more than 32 GB. Otherwise, the computation might be interrupted due to insufficient space of memory.

In the 2023/24 reporting year, Greater Manchester Police reported 32 homicide offences, compared with 35 in the previous year. During this time period, the number of homicides reported was highest in 2016/17.

In the 2022/23 reporting year Greater Manchester Police reported 144,336 violent crime offences, compared with 136,091 in the previous year. During this time period, the number of violent crimes reported was highest in the most recent year.

This is a collection of datasets and source code used for a crime prediction study based on POI locations.[1] Crime data from data.police.uk for the following UK police forces:-- Greater Manchester Police,-- Merseyside Police,-- Dorset Police,-- West Yorkshire Police.Time span: October 2016--September 2019.License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/Format: CVS (zipped).Files: GreaterManchesterPolice.zip MerseysidePolice.zip Dorset Police.zip West Yorkshire Police.zip [2] Data extracts from OpenStreetMap made available by Geofabrik.de forthe following UK counties:-- Greater Manchester,-- Merseyside,-- Dorset,-- West Yorkshire.Data layers: pois, pois_a, transport, transport_a.Downloaded on: November 14, 2019.License: Open Database License 1.0.Format: shapefile (zipped).Files: greater-manchester-latest-free.shp.zip merseyside-latest-free.shp.zip dorset-latest-free.shp.zip west-yorkshire-latest-free.shp.zip[3] UK administrative boundary data from ordnancesurvey.co.uk.Downloaded on: September 23, 2019.License: Open Government License.Note: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2018Format: shapefile (zipped)File: district_borough_unitary_region.shp.zip[4] Administrative boundary data for the following UK urban areas:-- Manchester (Manchester District),-- Liverpool (Liverpool District),-- Bournemouth (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole District),-- Wakefield (Wakefield District).Obtained by extracting the corresponding districts from dataset [3] listed above.Format: RDS.File: adm-man-liv-bou-wak.RDS.[5] Crime data aggregated to 300x300m grid for the following UK urban areas:-- Manchester (Manchester District),-- Liverpool (Liverpool District),-- Bournemouth (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole District),-- Wakefield (Wakefield District).Obtained by geographical aggregation of crime data [1] listed above, limited to the corresponding district boundaries from [3].Format: RDS.File: crime-grid-man-liv-bou-wak.RDS.[6] POI data aggregated to 300x300m grid for the following UK urban areas:-- Manchester (Manchester District),-- Liverpool (Liverpool District),-- Wakefield (Wakefield District),-- Bournemouth (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole District).Obtained by geographical aggregation of POI data [2] listed above, limited to the corresponding district boundaries from [3].Format: RDS.File: poi-grid-man-liv-bou-wak.RDS.[7] R functions for data preparation.File: crime-poi-functions-data.R.[8] R functions for model creation and evaluation.File: crime-poi-functions-model.R.[9] R script for data preparation.File: crime-poi-data.R.[10] R script for model creation and evaluation.File: crime-poi-model.R.The code assumes that:-- source code files are placed in the current working directory,-- original unprocessed data files [1-3] are placed in the data subdirectory of the current working directory,-- the RDS subdirectory exists in the current working directory (this is where RDS files are saved),-- the Plots subdirectory exists in the current working directory (this is where plot files are saved).The provided RDS files [4-6] may be optionally placed in the RDS subdirectory to avoid repeating the time-consuming data preparation process -- they will be used if available or re-created from the original data otherwise (but the latter may take several hours).

Police recorded crime figures by Police Force Area and Community Safety Partnership areas (which equate in the majority of instances, to local authorities).

In the 2023/24 reporting year, West Yorkshire Police reported a crime rate of 121.7 crimes per 1,000 population, the highest crime rate among the provided police force areas whose territories include large cities. Greater Manchester Police reported a crime rate of 117.7 crimes per 1,000 population, and had the second-highest crime rate during this year.

With a crime rate of 122.1 per 1,000 population, Cleveland, in North East England, had the highest crime rate of all the police force areas in England and Wales in 2024/25. High crime rates are evident in other areas of northern England, such as West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester at 114.5 and 108.2, respectively. In the English capital, London, the crime rate was 105.5 per 1,000 people. The lowest crime rate in England was in the relatively rural areas of Wiltshire in South West England, as well as North Yorkshire. Overall crime in England and Wales The number of crimes in England and Wales reached approximately 6.74 million in 2022/23, falling slightly to 6.66 million in 2023/24. Overall crime has been rising steadily across England and Wales for almost a decade, even when adjusted for population rises. In 2022/23, for example, the crime rate in England and Wales was 93.6, the highest since 2006/07. When compared with the rest of the United Kingdom, England and Wales is something of an outlier, as crime rates for Scotland and Northern Ireland have not followed the same trajectory of rising crime. Additionally, there has been a sharp increase in violent crimes and sexual offences since the mid-2010s in England and Wales. While theft offences have generally been falling, the number of shoplifting offences reached a peak of 440,000 in 2023/24. Troubled justice system under pressure Alongside rising crime figures, many indicators also signal that the justice system is getting pushed to breaking point. The percentage of crimes that are solved in England and Wales was just 5.7 percent in 2023, with sexual offences having a clearance rate of just 3.6 percent. Crimes are also taking far longer than usual to pass through the justice system. In 2023, it took an average of 676 days for a crown court case to reach a conclusion from the time of the offence. This is most likely related to the large backlog of cases in crown courts, which reached over 62,200 in 2023. Furthermore, prisons in England and Wales are dangerously overcrowded, with just 1,458 spare prison places available as of June 2024.

The project was intended to investigate all forms of interpersonal violence, from common assault to murder, in the second half of the 19th century, and to attempt to differentiate and contextualise the range of violent offences. The aims of the project were to: 1. Expand and enhance historical understanding and knowledge of violence in the second half of the nineteenth century 2. Examine critically the accepted interpretation that there was a long-term decline in violence, placing special emphasis on the 1870s as a possible 'watershed' decade 3. Examine, where possible, under-reported crimes of violence directed at women and children 4. Examine contemporary reactions to and perceptions of violence 5. Provide the first full historical study of all types of violent crime which offers depth and context to studies of crime in the late twentieth century Main Topics: Female inmates of Strangeways prison, December 1870 to August 1873 These data consist of: the name and address of the offender; their town and country of birth; their nationality, age, height and weight at the beginning and end of their sentence, and details about their children, religion, marital status, next of kin, and previous convictions. There is also information on the dates of their sentence, the crime they were convicted of (including the location of the crime and details of the victim), the magistrate that committed them, and other comments. Prosecutions brought by Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, March 1912 to December 1914 These data are taken from a register of all prosecutions conducted by the LSPCC. In the majority of cases parents were charged with neglect of their children. Other charges include: persistent cruelty, failing to maintain; criminal assault, grievous bodily harm, ill treatment, and habitual drunkenness. The data consist of: the name of the offender and their partner, address, number of children, offence, punishment, whether they were bound over, and other comments (such as whether there were previous convictions). Inquests held at Liverpool Coroner's Court, 1854 to 1856, 1859, 1862 to 1865 The data consist of: the date of the inquest, the name of the decedent, the place and date of death, the age of the decedent at death, and the verdict given.

The project was intended to investigate all forms of interpersonal violence, from common assault to murder, in the second half of the 19th century, and to attempt to differentiate and contextualise the range of violent offences. The aims of the project were to:

1. Expand and enhance historical understanding and knowledge of violence in the second half of the nineteenth century
2. Examine critically the accepted interpretation that there was a long-term decline in violence, placing special emphasis on the 1870s as a possible 'watershed' decade
3. Examine, where possible, under-reported crimes of violence directed at women and children
4. Examine contemporary reactions to and perceptions of violence
5. Provide the first full historical study of all types of violent crime which offers depth and context to studies of crime in the late twentieth century

In the 2022/23 reporting year Greater Manchester Police reported 11,827 sexual crime offences, compared with 11,613 in the previous year. During this time period, the number of sexual crimes reported was highest in the most recent year.

This Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset is based on the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), 2013-2014. It has been prepared for teaching and student use only with the aim of helping class tutors incorporate empirical data into their courses and supporting students to develop skills in quantitative data analysis. It contains data for 8,843 cases from the CSEW 2013-14 (non-victim form dataset) for a small selection of variables.

Most variables come directly from the CSEW 2013-14. However, some variables have been recoded and additional scalar variables have been added to support teaching and learning.

This Teaching Dataset is available under the Open Government Licence.

In the 2022/23 reporting year Greater Manchester Police reported 12,131 drug crime offences, compared with 7,560 in the previous year. During this time period, the number of theft crimes reported was highest in the 2016/17 reporting year.

The crime rate in London was 105.8 crime offences per thousand people for the 2023/24 reporting year, compared with 100.9 in the previous year. Between 2015/16 and 2019/20 the crime rate in the UK capital increased in every reporting year, with the sudden drop seen in 2019/20 due to the COVID-19 pandemic causing a sharp reduction in certain types of crime such as robbery and theft. Police record over 938,00 crimes in 2023/24 The number of crimes reported by the police in London was 938,020 in 2023/24, compared with 887,870 in the previous reporting year. Although there was a slight dip in overall recorded crime in the aftermath of the pandemic, this was not the case for violent crimes which have risen consistently. One positive is that the number of homicide offences in 2023/24 has remained beneath the 159 reported in 2017/18. Additionally, the Metropolitan Police force area has a lower crime rate than many of the UK's other major police forces, such as West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, and Merseyside. Police recruitment drive ends era of cuts   The rise in crime in London happened alongside a decline in both personnel and funding for the London Metropolitan Police. Compared with 2010 for example, there were around 3,000 fewer police officers in 2018, while annual funding was reduced to around 3.3 billion pounds between 2013/14 and 2018/19, compared with 3.62 billion in 2012/13. These cuts were due to the policy of austerity that was implemented by the UK government during that time period, but this has recently been replaced by pledges to increase spending and to recruit more police. In 2023/24, the budget for the Metropolitan Police was 4.53 billion pounds, while the number of officers in 2023 increased to around 34,900.

Outcome Appearance File: Monthly statistics on outcomes (e.g. Unable to prosecute suspect) over a 36-month period for each police force. This dataset includes 12 outcomes across 42 police forces. Three forces could not be used as they did not include any outcomes: the British Transport Police, Northern Ireland Police, and Greater Manchester Police.

Crime Investigation File: Monthly statistics on crime types (e.g. Burglary) over a 36-month period for each police force. This dataset includes 13 crime types across 42 police forces.

In 2023/24 there were 116 homicide offences recorded in London, the most of any region of the United Kingdom during that time period. North West England, which includes the large city of Manchester had 71 homicides, and had the second-highest number of homicides. In the same reporting period, the constituent countries of Northern Ireland and Wales reported the fewest homicides, at 24 each. Homicides in the UK falling despite recent uptick Since 2002/03, all three jurisdictions of the UK; England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, have seen their homicide rates fall, with Scotland seeing the steepest decline. The most significant decline in homicides in this period occurred between 2002/03 and 2014/15, which saw the annual number of homicides in England and Wales half from over 1,000 to 500. This trend was suddenly reversed from 2015/16 onwards, with homicides rising to around 700 per year between 2016/17 and 2019/20. While homicides fell back to 583 in 2023/24, it remains to be seen if this pattern will continue. Knives used in almost half of all murders In 2022/23 a knife or other sharp instrument was used in over 41 percent of all murders in England and Wales, making this, by far, the most common method of killing in that reporting year. The overall number of knife homicides reached 244 in 2022/23, compared with 282 in the previous year, and just above the 281 reported in 2017/18. Firearm homicides were much rarer than knife homicides, with 29 taking place in the same reporting year, and homicides caused by shooting only accounting for 4.9 percent of homicides overall.

The Crime Survey for England Wales 2011-2012: Teaching Dataset is based on the Crime Survey for England Wales 2011-2012 (available from the UK Data Archive under SN 7252) and constitutes real data which are used by the government and are behind many headlines. The teaching dataset contains fewer variables and has been subjected to certain simplifications and additions for the purpose of learning and teaching.

The main differences are:

• the number of variables has been reduced
• weighting has been simplified
• a reduced codebook is provided
• additional continuous variables have been created (using principle components analysis of pre-existing variables) in order to facilitate their use in quantitative methods classes