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'Crime statistics in the vicinty of Encombe Place, Salford'.
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Key Findings
The majority of crime occurring within 500-metres of both Encombe Place … were mainly linked to vehicle crime and criminal damage.
The highest time risk in the area surrounding Encombe Place is between 20:00 - 23:00 hours. This is long after the YOS office has closed. ……………Tuesday and Saturday were identified as the highest risk days for crime within the Encombe Place locus. The YOS office is currently not open on Saturdays.
Of the known offenders linked to the crime in the area surrounding Encombe Place, only 14% (16 offenders) were 18 years or under. Furthermore only 11 of these offenders were known to have YOIS records and therefore were known to attend the YOS office. Adults rather than young people account for the majority of detected crime in both areas.
Four (a quarter) of the young offenders linked to crime within the area surrounding Encombe Place were shown to live within the area. Half live within 2 km. This therefore explains their criminality in the area, rather than attendance at the YOS office……..
Under half the adult offenders live further away from both Encombe Place …….. This suggests that geographical features of the area attract criminality as the “need” to be in the area (i.e attendance at the YOS office) is not applicable to adult offenders.
The following presents an analysis of crime occurring within a 500-metre radius of Encombe Place ………... The former location is the site of the current YOS office; the latter is the proposed new site of the YOS office.
Crime occurring around Encombe Place (current YOS office)
Criminality in the area
Between 01/10/2008 to 31/12/2008 there have been 640 crimes reported within a 500-metre radius of Encombe Place YOS Office.
Over four fifths of the crime is accounted for by the following:
Theft from motor vehicle, 229 (35.8%)
Criminal damage, 122 (19%)
Less serious wounding, 56 (8.8%)
Burglary other, 39 (6.1%)
Supply/passes drugs, 37 (5.8%)
Misc thefts, 25 (3.9%)
Theft of motor vehicle, 22 (3.4%)
Time analysis
The chart below shows the time series of the 640 crimes reported with a 500-metre radius of Encombe Place. It can clearly be seen that the time hotspots for crime within this area occurs between 20:00-23:00 hours. From this point on, the risk decreases through the early hours of the morning before steadily increasing from 11:00 hours. The majority of office hours are actually relatively low risk in comparison to later in the evening (black vertical lines).
Aoristic range time analysis of all crime reported within 500-metres of Encombe Place.
Offender analysis
There were 115 individual offenders linked to crimes occurring within the 500-metre radius of Encombe Place.
16 (14%) were aged 18 years or under.
11 (9.6%) of these young offenders were known to have YOIS records (and therefore known to the YOS).
The 16 young offenders were linked to 17 crimes within the Encombe Place locus. This is only 13.5% of the total crime that had offenders linked to them. The remaining 86.5% of detected crime is linked to adult offenders. Therefore young offenders account for a relatively small proportion of the detected crime in the area.
It should also be noted that of the 16 young offenders linked to criminality in the area, four offenders actually lived within the area. Therefore the criminality that they are responsible for in the area is likely a function of the proximity of their residence, rather than their attendance at the YOS office.
The table shows the distance offenders live from the Encombe Place site (as the crow flies).
|
Young Offenders |
Adult Offenders |
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Home address from site (metres) |
Offenders |
Detected Crimes |
Offenders |
Detected Crimes |
0-500 |
4 |
6 |
21 |
28 |
500-1000 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
5 |
1000-2000 |
5 |
7 |
15 |
22 |
2000-4000 |
3 |
3 |
12 |
14 |
4000 + |
4 |
4 |
47 |
52 |
Total |
16 |
20 |
99 |
121 |
Nine of the 16 (56%) young offenders live within 2 km of the Encombe Place site. Although this figure is just over half, they account for 65% (13) of the detected crime in the area that were linked to young people. Under half of the adult offenders reside within 2 km of the site suggesting that most travel relatively long distances to commit crime in the area. The adult offenders do not attend the YOS office and so this suggests other factors facilitate the crime levels in the area (for example, a high density of parked cars, many in insecure locations, attracting offenders).
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GMAC Central Team 2009
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Analysis of crime surrounding Encombe Place ……. , Salford
Date: 29/04/2009
Produced by: GMAC Central Team
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