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  1. An Overview of Sexual Offending in England and Wales

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    Home Office (2013). An Overview of Sexual Offending in England and Wales [Dataset]. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/an-overview-of-sexual-offending-in-england-and-wales
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    Home Office
    Description

    This is an Official Statistics bulletin produced by statisticians in the Ministry of Justice, Home Office and the Office for National Statistics. It brings together, for the first time, a range of official statistics from across the crime and criminal justice system, providing an overview of sexual offending in England and Wales. The report is structured to highlight: the victim experience; the police role in recording and detecting the crimes; how the various criminal justice agencies deal with an offender once identified; and the criminal histories of sex offenders.

    Providing such an overview presents a number of challenges, not least that the available information comes from different sources that do not necessarily cover the same period, the same people (victims or offenders) or the same offences. This is explained further in the report.

    Victimisation through to police recording of crimes

    Based on aggregated data from the ‘Crime Survey for England and Wales’ in 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2011/12, on average, 2.5 per cent of females and 0.4 per cent of males said that they had been a victim of a sexual offence (including attempts) in the previous 12 months. This represents around 473,000 adults being victims of sexual offences (around 404,000 females and 72,000 males) on average per year. These experiences span the full spectrum of sexual offences, ranging from the most serious offences of rape and sexual assault, to other sexual offences like indecent exposure and unwanted touching. The vast majority of incidents reported by respondents to the survey fell into the other sexual offences category.

    It is estimated that 0.5 per cent of females report being a victim of the most serious offences of rape or sexual assault by penetration in the previous 12 months, equivalent to around 85,000 victims on average per year. Among males, less than 0.1 per cent (around 12,000) report being a victim of the same types of offences in the previous 12 months.

    Around one in twenty females (aged 16 to 59) reported being a victim of a most serious sexual offence since the age of 16. Extending this to include other sexual offences such as sexual threats, unwanted touching or indecent exposure, this increased to one in five females reporting being a victim since the age of 16.

    Around 90 per cent of victims of the most serious sexual offences in the previous year knew the perpetrator, compared with less than half for other sexual offences.

    Females who had reported being victims of the most serious sexual offences in the last year were asked, regarding the most recent incident, whether or not they had reported the incident to the police. Only 15 per cent of victims of such offences said that they had done so. Frequently cited reasons for not reporting the crime were that it was ‘embarrassing’, they ‘didn’t think the police could do much to help’, that the incident was ‘too trivial or not worth reporting’, or that they saw it as a ‘private/family matter and not police business’

    In 2011/12, the police recorded a total of 53,700 sexual offences across England and Wales. The most serious sexual offences of ‘rape’ (16,000 offences) and ‘sexual assault’ (22,100 offences) accounted for 71 per cent of sexual offences recorded by the police. This differs markedly from victims responding to the CSEW in 2011/12, the majority of whom were reporting being victims of other sexual offences outside the most serious category.

    This reflects the fact that victims are more likely to report the most serious sexual offences to the police and, as such, the police and broader criminal justice system (CJS) tend to deal largely with the most serious end of the spectrum of sexual offending. The majority of the other sexual crimes recorded by the police related to ‘exposure or voyeurism’ (7,000) and ‘sexual activity with minors’ (5,800).

    Trends in recorded crime statistics can be influenced by whether victims feel able to and decide to report such offences to the police, and by changes in police recording practices. For example, while there was a 17 per cent decrease in recorded sexual offences between 2005/06 and 2008/09, there was a seven per cent increase between 2008/09 and 2010/11. The latter increase may in part be due to greater encouragement by the police to victims to come forward and improvements in police recording, rather than an increase in the level of victimisation.

    After the initial recording of a crime, the police may later decide that no crime took place as more details about the case emerge. In 2011/12, there were 4,155 offences initially recorded as sexual offences that the police later decided were not crimes. There are strict guidelines that set out circumstances under which a crime report may be ‘no crimed’. The ‘no-crime’ rate for sexual offences (7.2 per cent) compare

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    Metropolitan Police Service, Crime Statistics, United Kingdom, September...

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    Updated Apr 29, 2008
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    Metropolitan Police Service (2008). Metropolitan Police Service, Crime Statistics, United Kingdom, September 2007 [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    Apr 29, 2008
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    This dataset shows the levels of various crimes throughout the Boroughs of London, UK. Data is available monthly, with September being the most recently available month.

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    U.S. Department of Justice, Total Arrests by Crime, USA by State, 2006

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    Updated May 5, 2008
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    Emily Sciarillo (2008). U.S. Department of Justice, Total Arrests by Crime, USA by State, 2006 [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    May 5, 2008
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    U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation; Criminal Justice Information Services Division
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    Emily Sciarillo
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    This dataset was retrieved from the U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Criminal Justice Information Services Division website on February 29, 2008. "This table provides arrest data for 29 separate UCR offenses for each state for 2006". The table provides data for total arrests by class of crime. "The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program". Estimated population was added for each state for 2006 that appeared on Table 5 of the data from 2006. Please see the Data Declaration for further information on the data set. Values of -1 represent no value.

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    U.S. Department of Justice, Crime, USA by State, 2006

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    Updated May 5, 2008
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    Emily Sciarillo (2008). U.S. Department of Justice, Crime, USA by State, 2006 [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    May 5, 2008
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    U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation; Criminal Justice Information Services Division
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    Emily Sciarillo
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    This dataset was retrieved from the U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Criminal Justice Information Services Division website on February 29, 2008. "This table provides the estimated number of offenses and the actual number of offenses reported in the Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA), cities outside metropolitan areas, and nonmetropolitan counties, and the rate (per 100,000 inhabitants) for each grouping, and the estimated population for each state" however to simplify the dataset, I only included the state total and the rate for each state. Data for Puerto Rico was not included. "The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program". Please see the Data Declaration for further information on the data set. Values of -1 represent no value.

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    Census, Demographic Data For Manhattan, New York City

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    Updated Jun 4, 2008
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    Census (2008). Census, Demographic Data For Manhattan, New York City [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    Jun 4, 2008
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    Census
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    This dataset provides highly detailed (Block Level) views of various demographics for Manhattan, New York city. this dataset includes information on age, race, sex, income, housing, and various other attributes. This data comes from the 2000 Us Census and was joined to the Census Tiger line files to create the output. enjoy!

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    FBI, US Crime by City, USA, 2006

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    Updated Apr 29, 2008
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    data (2008). FBI, US Crime by City, USA, 2006 [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    Apr 29, 2008
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    FBI
    data
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    This dataset shows City level data for all over the United States, and has various attributes for different crimes. Cities are shown as Latitude and longitude points. Attributes include murder, manslaughter, violent crimes, arson, motor vehicle theft, property crimes, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, theft, and rape. Data was provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Source: FBI URL: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_08.html

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    Internet Crime Perpretators by State, 2007

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    Updated May 26, 2008
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    laurie (2008). Internet Crime Perpretators by State, 2007 [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    May 26, 2008
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    The Internet Crime Complainent Center
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    This dataset gives the state shares of Internet perpetrators in the U.S. The data was extracted from the 2007 Internet Crime Report prepared by the National White Collar Crime Center, the Bureau of Justice Assistance and FBI. Further details are provide in the report (see URL link below)

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    U.S. Department of Justice, Juvenile Arrests by Crime, USA by State, 2006

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    Updated May 5, 2008
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    Emily Sciarillo (2008). U.S. Department of Justice, Juvenile Arrests by Crime, USA by State, 2006 [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    May 5, 2008
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    U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation; Criminal Justice Information Services Division
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    Authors
    Emily Sciarillo
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    This dataset was retrieved from the U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Criminal Justice Information Services Division website on February 29, 2008. "This table provides arrest data for 29 separate UCR offenses for each state for 2006. The table provides arrests of juveniles (persons under the age of 18)", by class of crime. "The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program". Please see the Data Declaration for further information on the data set. Values of -1 represent no value.

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    USA Election Polls, Democratic Primary Exit Polls by Race/Ethnicity and...

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    Updated May 19, 2008
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    Emily Sciarillo (2008). USA Election Polls, Democratic Primary Exit Polls by Race/Ethnicity and Gender, USA by State, 2008 [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    May 19, 2008
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    USA Election Polls
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    Emily Sciarillo
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    This dataset is from the website USA Election Polls. The data provide information from exit polls from the Democratic primaries in 2008 by state for race/ethnicity and gender. All values of -1 represent no available data.

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    Location dynamics, owner occupation and ethnicity in Scotland (LDOES) -...

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    Updated May 8, 2023
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    (2023). Location dynamics, owner occupation and ethnicity in Scotland (LDOES) - Dataset - B2FIND [Dataset]. https://b2find.eudat.eu/dataset/328f9c81-df14-5f62-8b2d-f121de8789e7
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    May 8, 2023
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    Scotland
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    The LDOES project investigated the dynamics of changing neighbourhood populations over two decades in Scotland. The project has substantive links with two other ESRC projects: AQMeN II Urban Segmentation (PI: Susan McVie, Edinburgh) and Dynamics of Ethnic Identity & Inequality (PI: James Nazroo, Manchester). The project identified a lack of available information on ethnic migration dynamics in inter-census years. The Registers of Scotland (RoS) property transactions data was used to address this deficit. The RoS data captures each and every property transaction in Scotland between 1990 and 2014 as well as the names of buyers and sellers. Additional work was done by the AQMeN team to impute the ethnicity and religion of buyers using the name-classification software Onomap. This deposit contains tables for annual ethnic and religious inflows into an area based on the names of property buyers. The aggregation is at the level of 2001 Scottish Datazones (each unit covers between 500 – 1000 residents). The Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) Phase II is a Research Centre that aims to develop a dynamic and pioneering set of projects to improve our understanding of current social issues in the UK and provide policy makers and practitioners with the evidence to build a better future. Three principal cross-cutting research strands will exploit existing high-quality data resources: (1) Education and Social Stratification will focus on social class differences in entry to, progression in and attainment at tertiary education and how they affect individuals' labour market outcomes and their civic participation; (2) Crime and Victimisation will explore the dramatic change in crime rates in Scotland and other jurisdictions and examines the determinants and impact of criminal careers amongst populations of offenders; and (3) Urban Segmentation and Inequality which will create innovative new measures of social segmentation and combine these with cutting-edge longitudinal and sorting-model techniques to explore the causes of neighbourhood segmentation, household location choice and neighbourhood inequalities. Five additional projects will focus on the referendum on Scottish independence, location dynamics and ethnicity and exploiting existing datasets. The research will fed into training activities and knowledge exchange events aimed at boosting capacity in quantitative methods amongst the UK social science community. The original data was collected by Registers of Scotland. Registers of Scotland is the non-ministerial government department responsible for compiling and maintaining 18 public registers. These relate to land, property, and other legal documents. The data is a complete census of housing transactions in Scotland from 1990 - 2014. Additional work was done by the AQMeN II team to impute the ethnicity and religion of buyers based on name using onomap -- a commercial software for name based imputation (http://www.onomap.org/).

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    CDC's National Death Index, Unidentified Human Remains, 1980-2004, USA

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    Updated Jun 3, 2008
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    Burkey (2008). CDC's National Death Index, Unidentified Human Remains, 1980-2004, USA [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    Jun 3, 2008
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    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Death Index
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    This dataset examines the number of unidentified persons reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) National Death Index (NDI), by State, from 1980 to 2004. This report also looks at the number of unidentified human remains reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Unidentified Person File. It describes the characteristics by race and gender and the manner of death. Highlights include the following: Between 1980 and 2004, about 10,300 unidentified human remains were reported to the National Death Index (NDI). Almost three-quarters of unidentified persons were reported by 5 states; Arizona, California, Florida, New York, and Texas. Of the 2,900 National Crime Information Center records that contained data on the manner of death, 27% were ruled homicides; 12%, accidental deaths; 7%, natural causes; and 5%, suicides. The majority of unidentified persons were white (70%); blacks made up 15% of unidentified persons; and race could not be determined in 13% of the cases. For more information about this data go to: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/uhrus04.htm

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    CTPP, Ethnicity by Residence, Miami FL, 2000

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    Updated May 27, 2008
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    data (2008). CTPP, Ethnicity by Residence, Miami FL, 2000 [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    May 27, 2008
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    Census Transportation Planning Package (CTPP), and is the result of a cooperative effort between various groups including the State Departments of Transportation, U.S. Census Bureau, and the Federal Highway Administration
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    This dataset shows the origin and race of residents. The data is part of the Census Transportation Planning Package (CTPP), and is the result of a cooperative effort between various groups including the State Departments of Transportation, U.S. Census Bureau, and the Federal Highway Administration. The data is a special tabulation of responses from households completing the decennial census long form. The data was collected in 2000 and is shown at tract level. This data can be found at http://www.transtats.bts.gov/Fields.asp?Table_ID=1341.

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    Internet Crime Complainents by State, 2007

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    Updated May 26, 2008
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    The Internet Crime Complaint Center (2008). Internet Crime Complainents by State, 2007 [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    May 26, 2008
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    The Internet Crime Complaint Center
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    Description

    This dataset gives the state shares of Internet crime complainents in the U.S. The data was extracted from the 2007 Internet Crime Report prepared by the National White Collar Crime Center, the Bureau of Justice Assistance and FBI. Further details are provide in the report (see URL link below)

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    Reporters Without Borders, Freedom of the Press: Worldwide Ranks by Country,...

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    Updated Apr 29, 2008
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    Reporters Without Borders (2008). Reporters Without Borders, Freedom of the Press: Worldwide Ranks by Country, World, 2004 [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    Apr 29, 2008
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    Reporters Without Borders
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    This dataset shows where media and press are most free to express their views and opinions. Countries rankings are based on laws, violence, and deaths of reporters and journalists. This is a Different measure of freedom than the world freedom index but just as important. This dataset shows the availability of dissenting views and opinions allowed within a Country. Source URL: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11715

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    Catoctin Creek

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    Updated Jun 2, 2008
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    data (2008). Catoctin Creek [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    This dataset has been migrated from our Geocommons platform, and lacks a description from the original posting user. This is not a Fortiusone provided dataset. Please keep this in mind, and make of the dataset what you will. Thank you for visiting Finder!

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    Office for National Statistics, UK Census - Population by Age and County,...

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    Updated Jun 25, 2008
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    Brendan (2008). Office for National Statistics, UK Census - Population by Age and County, England and Wales, 2001 [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    Jun 25, 2008
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    This dataset displays the population statistics by county and age for England and Wales. This data is derived from statistics from the 2001 UK Census. Due to variation in the data and the shapefile data is not available for Merseyside, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, and Tyne and Wear.

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    Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry(ATSDR), Hazardous Waste...

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    Updated May 13, 2008
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    data (2008). Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry(ATSDR), Hazardous Waste Sites, USA and Territories, 5.08 [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    May 13, 2008
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    Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry(ATSDR)
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    This dataset displays all the hazardous waste sites in the United States and it's Territories as of 5.08. The data comes from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry(ATSDR). The dataset contains information about the site: Site ID Site Name CERCLIS # Address City State County Latitude Longitude Population Region # Congressional Districts Federal Facility National Priorities List Status Ownership Status Classification For more information go to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry(ATSDR)website at http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov

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    Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Vital Statistics...

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    Updated May 6, 2008
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    Emily Sciarillo (2008). Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Vital Statistics Reports: Births, USA, 2005 [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    May 6, 2008
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    Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
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    Emily Sciarillo
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    This dataset was created from the CDC's National Vital Statistics Reports Volume 56, Number 6. The dataset includes all data available from this report by state level and includes births by race and Hispanic origin, births to unmarried women, rates of cesarean delivery, and twin and multiple birth rates. The data are final for 2005. No value is represented by a -1. "Descriptive tabulations of data reported on the birth certificates of the 4.1 million births that occurred in 2005 are presented. Denominators for population-based rates are postcensal estimates derived from the U.S. 2000 census".

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    World Bank Group Entrepreneurship, Entreprenuership Database World Bank,...

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    Updated Apr 29, 2008
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    data (2008). World Bank Group Entrepreneurship, Entreprenuership Database World Bank, World, 2007 [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    Apr 29, 2008
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    World Bank Group Entrepreneurship
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    The 2007 World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey measures entrepreneurial activity in 84 developing and industrial countries over the period 2003-2005. The database includes cross-country, time-series data on the number of total and newly registered businesses, collected directly from Registrar of Companies around the world. In its second year, this survey incorporates improvements in methodology, and expanded participation from countries covered, allowing for greater cross-border compatibility of data compared with the 2006 survey. This joint effort by the IFC SME Department and the World Bank Developing Research Group is the most comprehensive dataset on cross-country firm entry data available today. This database The World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Dataaset presents data collected primarily from country business registries using the first annual World Bank Group Questionnaire on Entrepreneurship (alternative sources were tax authorities, finance ministries, and national statistics offices). For more information on the author of the database, Leora Klapper, visit: http://go.worldbank.org/DK5AHCQSO0. This data was access at the preceeding link, on October 11, 2007. Please visit the link for more information in regards to this dataset.

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    New York City Newsstand data with Fake Sales numbers

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    Updated Jun 5, 2008
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    Bill Greer (2008). New York City Newsstand data with Fake Sales numbers [Dataset]. http://geocommons.com/search.html
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    Jun 5, 2008
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    Fake Data, no source
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    Bill Greer
    Description

    This dataset shows actual locations of newsstands throughout New York City, with actual contact information, however I've added a few columns of fake data representing sales of magazines at that newsstand. the numbers are randomly generated, and fake.

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Home Office (2013). An Overview of Sexual Offending in England and Wales [Dataset]. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/an-overview-of-sexual-offending-in-england-and-wales
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An Overview of Sexual Offending in England and Wales

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Description

This is an Official Statistics bulletin produced by statisticians in the Ministry of Justice, Home Office and the Office for National Statistics. It brings together, for the first time, a range of official statistics from across the crime and criminal justice system, providing an overview of sexual offending in England and Wales. The report is structured to highlight: the victim experience; the police role in recording and detecting the crimes; how the various criminal justice agencies deal with an offender once identified; and the criminal histories of sex offenders.

Providing such an overview presents a number of challenges, not least that the available information comes from different sources that do not necessarily cover the same period, the same people (victims or offenders) or the same offences. This is explained further in the report.

Victimisation through to police recording of crimes

Based on aggregated data from the ‘Crime Survey for England and Wales’ in 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2011/12, on average, 2.5 per cent of females and 0.4 per cent of males said that they had been a victim of a sexual offence (including attempts) in the previous 12 months. This represents around 473,000 adults being victims of sexual offences (around 404,000 females and 72,000 males) on average per year. These experiences span the full spectrum of sexual offences, ranging from the most serious offences of rape and sexual assault, to other sexual offences like indecent exposure and unwanted touching. The vast majority of incidents reported by respondents to the survey fell into the other sexual offences category.

It is estimated that 0.5 per cent of females report being a victim of the most serious offences of rape or sexual assault by penetration in the previous 12 months, equivalent to around 85,000 victims on average per year. Among males, less than 0.1 per cent (around 12,000) report being a victim of the same types of offences in the previous 12 months.

Around one in twenty females (aged 16 to 59) reported being a victim of a most serious sexual offence since the age of 16. Extending this to include other sexual offences such as sexual threats, unwanted touching or indecent exposure, this increased to one in five females reporting being a victim since the age of 16.

Around 90 per cent of victims of the most serious sexual offences in the previous year knew the perpetrator, compared with less than half for other sexual offences.

Females who had reported being victims of the most serious sexual offences in the last year were asked, regarding the most recent incident, whether or not they had reported the incident to the police. Only 15 per cent of victims of such offences said that they had done so. Frequently cited reasons for not reporting the crime were that it was ‘embarrassing’, they ‘didn’t think the police could do much to help’, that the incident was ‘too trivial or not worth reporting’, or that they saw it as a ‘private/family matter and not police business’

In 2011/12, the police recorded a total of 53,700 sexual offences across England and Wales. The most serious sexual offences of ‘rape’ (16,000 offences) and ‘sexual assault’ (22,100 offences) accounted for 71 per cent of sexual offences recorded by the police. This differs markedly from victims responding to the CSEW in 2011/12, the majority of whom were reporting being victims of other sexual offences outside the most serious category.

This reflects the fact that victims are more likely to report the most serious sexual offences to the police and, as such, the police and broader criminal justice system (CJS) tend to deal largely with the most serious end of the spectrum of sexual offending. The majority of the other sexual crimes recorded by the police related to ‘exposure or voyeurism’ (7,000) and ‘sexual activity with minors’ (5,800).

Trends in recorded crime statistics can be influenced by whether victims feel able to and decide to report such offences to the police, and by changes in police recording practices. For example, while there was a 17 per cent decrease in recorded sexual offences between 2005/06 and 2008/09, there was a seven per cent increase between 2008/09 and 2010/11. The latter increase may in part be due to greater encouragement by the police to victims to come forward and improvements in police recording, rather than an increase in the level of victimisation.

After the initial recording of a crime, the police may later decide that no crime took place as more details about the case emerge. In 2011/12, there were 4,155 offences initially recorded as sexual offences that the police later decided were not crimes. There are strict guidelines that set out circumstances under which a crime report may be ‘no crimed’. The ‘no-crime’ rate for sexual offences (7.2 per cent) compare

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