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Chapter 7

The document discusses the importance of crime statistics in formulating anti-crime strategies, understanding crime trends, and analyzing socio-economic factors affecting crime. It outlines various statistical formulas for measuring crime volume, index crimes, crime solution efficiency, crime rate, and average monthly crime rate. Additionally, it explains methods for crime analysis, including percentage shares and variance to assess crime trends over time.

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Chapter 7

The document discusses the importance of crime statistics in formulating anti-crime strategies, understanding crime trends, and analyzing socio-economic factors affecting crime. It outlines various statistical formulas for measuring crime volume, index crimes, crime solution efficiency, crime rate, and average monthly crime rate. Additionally, it explains methods for crime analysis, including percentage shares and variance to assess crime trends over time.

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CHAPTER VII

MEASURING CRIME

1
Crime Statistics- the
collection or study of
numerical data of crimes
recorded/reported to the
police.

2
Importance of Crime Statistics
✓Facilitate policy makers in the formulation
of anti-crime strategy.
✓Assist leaders in the
deployment/disposition of personnel.
✓Understand how statistics affect any day-
day operations of the police station.
Importance of Crime Statistics
✓Provides an analysis of the relationship of
crime incidents with the different
socioeconomic factors.
✓Determines crime trends over the years.
✓Validates hypothesis regarding crime incidents.
✓Traces the prone areas and as to why it is
labeled as such.
Socio-economic Factors
Affecting the Crime Situation
✓Population density and size of location.
Variations in the compositions of the
population, particularly age structure.
✓Economic conditions such as educational and
religious characteristics.
✓Climate
Socio-economic Factors
Affecting the Crime Situation
✓Effective strength of law enforcement
agencies and emphasis of law
enforcement.
✓Attitudes of citizenry towards crime.
✓Crime reporting practices of citizenry.
Statistical Formula
1. Crime Volume- total number of reported crime
incidents in an area over a given period of time
regardless of the number of perpetrators.
2. Index Crime- crime which are serious in nature
and which occur with sufficient frequency and
regularity such that they can serve as an index
to the crime situation.
2 Classification of Index Crime
a) Crime against person- murder,
homicide, physical injury, rape
b) Crimes against property-
robbery, theft
Statistical Formula

3. Non-Index Crimes- violations of special


laws and other crimes such as crimes
against moral and order; crimes against
chastity;
Statistical Formula

4. Crime Solution Efficiency (CSE)-


Percentage of solved cases out of the
total number of reported crime incidents
handled by the police offices for a given
period of time. It is a general measure of
law enforcement agency’s investigative
capability or efficiency.
Formula for Computing CSE

Number of Solved Cases


CSE= 100
Total No. of Reported Crimes
Statistical Formula

5. Crime Rate- the number of crime


incidents in a given period of time for
every 100,000 inhabitants of an
area/place.
Formula for Computing Crime Rate

Crime Volume
CR= 100,000
Population
Statistical Formula

6. Average Monthly Crime Rate (AMCR)-


the average number of crime incidents
occurred per month for every 100,00
inhabitants in a certain area.
Formula for AMCR
Crime Volume
Population
AMCR= 100,000
No. of Months
Statistical Formula
7. Crime Analysis
a. Percentage Share of Crime Volume of a
Certain Area
Crime Volume of a Certain Area
= 100
Crime Volume Nationwide
Crime Analysis
b. Percentage Share of the Occurrence of Type
of Crime
Total Number of Occurrences of a Type of Crime
=
Crime Volume Nationwide
100
Crime Analysis
c. Variance ( or % change)- one way of
analyzing crime trends. It measure the
percentage of change over a given period of
time. Current data – Previous Data
=
Previous Data
100
Crime Clock
Crime Clock

Time Frame Total Non- Index


Crime Volume Index Crime
Crime
Per Year Divide by the Number of Years

Per Month Divide by the Number of Months

Per Day Divide by the Number of Days

Per Hour Divide by the Number of Hours

Per Minute Divide by the Number of Minutes

(If the answer is less than 1, then divide 1 by the answer)

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