Sidebottom, A, Kuo, T, Mori, T et al. (2 more authors) (2018) The East Asian crime drop? Crime Science, 7 (1). ARTN 6. pp. 1-6. ISSN 2193-7680
Abstract
The ‘crime drop’ refers to the substantial reductions in crime reported in many industrialised countries over at least the past quarter century. Asian countries are underrepresented in the crime drop literature. Little is therefore known about whether the same type and levels of crime reductions have been observed, and if prevailing explanations hold. In this study, we examine trends in burglary and car crime using police recorded crime data from Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan. We show that Japan and Taiwan experienced crime drops similar to that reported elsewhere but occurring more recently in the early 2000s. Hong Kong appears anomalous, with a major crime decline emerging from the early 1980s. The study concludes that there is sufficient evidence to justify further research and sets out suggestions to that end.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | Burglary; car crime; crime drop; East Asia; opportunity; security |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2018 10:09 |
Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2018 10:09 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Open |
Identification Number: | 10.1186/s40163-018-0080-x |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:135647 |
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