We extend this line of literature by linking regional crime rates, an indicator of extreme breakdown of social capital, to corporate reporting behaviours such as earnings management and tax avoidance. Utilising borough-level crime rates in London, we show that firms headquartered in boroughs with ...
New figures show that three-quarters of the boroughs in London with the highest number of violent offences are also in the top 10 most deprived, while the same boroughs also have higher proportions of children under 20 living in poverty than the London average. The statistics, in a detailed ...
As in many other places, solutions in London have mostly been sought through enforcement – mandatory sentences for knife possession, an increase in stop-and-search, and the formation of a "gangs database" which sends letters to young people and their parents threatening legal repercussions. Acade...
The data are aggregated at the level of the 32 boroughs in London into four six-hour windows for property and violent crimes. This is matched to detailed game information for nine major football teams with grounds in seven different London boroughs (in parenthesis): Arsenal (Islington), ...
Moped-enabled crime is a problem throughout central London, but Camden (with 4,147 incidents) and Islington (with 3,587 incidents) are the worst affected boroughs though – whatever our perception – the robberies are very much concentrated in the south of the borough. Earlier this year, Camd...
We extend this line of literature by linking regional crime rates, an indicator of extreme breakdown of social capital, to corporate reporting behaviours such as earnings management and tax avoidance. Utilising borough-level crime rates in London, we show that firms headquartered in boroughs with ...
Street Crime Going Up in All Boroughs as Detection Rates SlumpDAVID TAYLOREvening Standard
children, for its 2004 Youth Survey.The data shows that the peak age of offending is 14, but London children aged under 11 are offending more than anywhere else in the UK.Detection rates for youth crimes in London show that only 16 per cent of offenders in the past 12 months were ...
This chapter provides an in-depth analysis on the research of knife-enabled crimes, causes and motivating factors with the focus on the 33 boroughs of London. This chapter reviews the contemporary literature to answer many of the important questions including what are the main causes and who are...