When I left law enforcement and went to college decades ago, my criminological professors stated that western industrial nations had similar crime counts that were different, but essentially mimicked growth or declines in US crime rates or totals (over time) leading to a hypothesis that crime (and the forces contributing to crime) were not unique to the US but were international in nature.
I find it interesting that Canadian or UK or Australian crime forums often mimic (to a degree) what's happening in the US with obvious differences for firearms (knife crime in the UK is a big issue). But cops leaving or bail reform or fear of crime or gangs or immigration or violence all seem to be of importance in countries many thousands of miles apart. When I read Canadian articles or papers, I could easily be reading the same report for any US city.
It would be interesting (but laborious) to confirm this. Are the conditions that cause crime universal? Obviously poverty or income disparities play a basic role in criminology regardless as to where you live but the message of my professors was that what influences crime here influences crime trends throughout the industrialized western world.
Are we all one big criminological family when it comes to crime rates and total trends? Back in the day, criminologists seemed to believe that we were.
Hi Jeff,
The "Rates" button on the graphs gives me this error from Datawrapper:
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Thanks. Will fix as soon as I can.
Very weird, it looks like it's fixed.
Hi Jeff: Interesting. Thanks.
When I left law enforcement and went to college decades ago, my criminological professors stated that western industrial nations had similar crime counts that were different, but essentially mimicked growth or declines in US crime rates or totals (over time) leading to a hypothesis that crime (and the forces contributing to crime) were not unique to the US but were international in nature.
I find it interesting that Canadian or UK or Australian crime forums often mimic (to a degree) what's happening in the US with obvious differences for firearms (knife crime in the UK is a big issue). But cops leaving or bail reform or fear of crime or gangs or immigration or violence all seem to be of importance in countries many thousands of miles apart. When I read Canadian articles or papers, I could easily be reading the same report for any US city.
It would be interesting (but laborious) to confirm this. Are the conditions that cause crime universal? Obviously poverty or income disparities play a basic role in criminology regardless as to where you live but the message of my professors was that what influences crime here influences crime trends throughout the industrialized western world.
Are we all one big criminological family when it comes to crime rates and total trends? Back in the day, criminologists seemed to believe that we were.
Len.