Article: Crime and coronavirus: social distancing, lockdown, and the mobility elasticity of crime.
2020 Volume 9, Issue 1, Page(s) 11
Abstract: Governments around the world restricted movement of people, using social distancing and lockdowns ... elasticity of crime for four crime types, finding shoplifting and other theft inelastic but responsive ... March lockdown, all recorded crime had declined 41%, with variation: shoplifting (- 62%), theft (- 52 ...
| Abstract | Governments around the world restricted movement of people, using social distancing and lockdowns, to help stem the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We examine crime effects for one UK police force area in comparison to 5-year averages. There is variation in the onset of change by crime type, some declining from the WHO 'global pandemic' announcement of 11 March, others later. By 1 week after the 23 March lockdown, all recorded crime had declined 41%, with variation: shoplifting (- 62%), theft (- 52%), domestic abuse (- 45%), theft from vehicle (- 43%), assault (- 36%), burglary dwelling (- 25%) and burglary non-dwelling (- 25%). We use Google Covid-19 Community Mobility Reports to calculate the mobility elasticity of crime for four crime types, finding shoplifting and other theft inelastic but responsive to reduced retail sector mobility (MEC = 0.84, 0.71 respectively), burglary dwelling elastic to |
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| Keywords | covid19 |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2020-07-06 |
| Publishing country | Germany |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 2806589-X |
| ISSN | 2193-7680 |
| ISSN | 2193-7680 |
| DOI | 10.1186/s40163-020-00121-w |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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