eprintid: 10054366
rev_number: 18
eprint_status: archive
userid: 608
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datestamp: 2018-08-13 13:31:51
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Sidebottom, A
creators_name: Kuo, T
creators_name: Mori, T
creators_name: Li, J
creators_name: Farrell, G
title: The East Asian crime drop?
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: F52
keywords: Burglary, Car crime, Crime drop, East Asia, Opportunity, Security
note: © The Author(s) 2018. Open Access:
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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.
date: 2018-12
date_type: published
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-018-0080-x
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Article
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elements_id: 1576340
doi: 10.1186/s40163-018-0080-x
lyricists_name: Sidebottom, Aiden
lyricists_id: ALSID35
actors_name: Sidebottom, Aiden
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: ALSID35
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
actors_role: impersonator
full_text_status: public
publication: Crime Science
volume: 7
article_number: 6
issn: 2193-7680
citation:        Sidebottom, A;    Kuo, T;    Mori, T;    Li, J;    Farrell, G;      (2018)    The East Asian crime drop?                   Crime Science , 7     , Article 6.  10.1186/s40163-018-0080-x <https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-018-0080-x>.       Green open access   
 
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