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Crime research and analysis

This series brings together all documents relating to crime research and analysis

• From: Home Office
• Published: 7 October 2013
• Last updated: 21 May 2024 — See all updates

Research on crime to support Home Office policy development and operational activity.

Documents

• Independent Child Trafficking Guardian (ICTG) MSA evaluation
  • 21 May 2024
  • Research and analysis
• An evaluation of the pilot to devolve decision-making for child victims of modern slavery
  • 21 May 2024
  • Research and analysis
• Evaluation of the Safer Streets Fund round 3, year ending March 2022
  • 10 April 2024
  • Research and analysis
• Evaluation of the Safer Streets Fund round 2, year ending March 2022
  • 10 April 2024
  • Research and analysis
• Safety of Women at Night Fund evaluation
  • 10 April 2024
  • Research and analysis
• Hot spot policing in England and Wales, year ending March 2022
  • 15 February 2024
  • Research and analysis
• The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on crime demand and charge volumes
  • 25 January 2024
  • Research and analysis
• Violence Reduction Units year ending March 2023 evaluation report
  • 20 December 2023
  • Research and analysis
• Evaluating the Support for Migrant Victims (SMV) Pilot
  • 4 August 2023
  • Research and analysis
• Economic Crime Survey 2020
  • 3 May 2023
  • Research and analysis
• Violence Reduction Units, year ending March 2022 evaluation report
  • 2 February 2023
  • Research and analysis
• Safer Streets Fund evaluation: Round 1, year ending March 2021
  • 11 January 2023
  • Research and analysis
• Digital evidence in appeal judgement transcripts
  • 19 May 2022
  • Research and analysis
• Violence reduction unit year ending March 2021 evaluation report
  • 1 April 2022
  • Research and analysis
• Economic crime research strategy: Home Office research priorities
  • 4 May 2021
  • Research and analysis
• The motivations of offenders who carry and use acid and other corrosives in criminal acts
  • 4 February 2021
  • Research and analysis
• Evaluation of the modern slavery Local Authority Pathway pilots
  • 29 October 2020
  • Research and analysis
• An assessment of Independent Child Trafficking Guardians
  • 6 January 2022
  • Research and analysis
• An analysis of Disclosure and Barring Service applications for 2015 to 2016
  • 9 September 2020
  • Research and analysis
• Violence Reduction Unit evaluation, 2019 to 2020
  • 21 August 2020
  • Research and analysis
• Trends and drivers of homicide: Main findings
  • 13 April 2020
  • Research and analysis
• Successes and challenges of delivering hate crime community projects
  • 16 March 2020
  • Research and analysis
• An analysis of indicators of serious violence: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study and the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study
  • 23 July 2019
  • Research and analysis
• An evaluation of Independent Child Trafficking Guardians - early adopter sites: Final report
  • 22 July 2019
  • Research and analysis
• Understanding organised crime April 2015 to March 2016 second edition
  • 11 March 2019
  • Research and analysis
• The economic and social costs of domestic abuse
  • 21 January 2019
  • Research and analysis
• Serious and Organised Crime: Home Office research priorities April 2018 to March 2021
  • 1 November 2018
  • Research and analysis
• Exploring the role of the Financial Investigator
  • 1 November 2018
  • Research and analysis
• The economic and social costs of crime second edition
  • 6 August 2018
  • Research and analysis
• An assessment of Independent Child Trafficking Advocates: Interim findings
  • 30 July 2018
  • Research and analysis
• Economic and social costs of modern slavery
  • 17 August 2018
  • Research and analysis
• The scale and nature of fraud: a review of the evidence
  • 16 July 2018
  • Research and analysis
• Understanding the costs of cyber crime
  • 18 January 2018
  • Research and analysis
• An evaluation of the National Referral Mechanism pilot
  • 26 October 2017
  • Research and analysis
• A typology of modern slavery offences in the UK
  • 17 October 2017
  • Research and analysis
• Impact of the reduction in heroin supply between 2010 and 2011
  • 21 January 2016
  • Research and analysis
• New opiate and crack-cocaine users: characteristics and trends
  • 21 January 2016
  • Research and analysis
• Social network analysis of an urban street gang using police intelligence data
  • 13 January 2016
  • Research and analysis
• Local perspectives in Ending Gang and Youth Violence areas: perceptions of the nature of urban street gangs
  • 13 January 2016
  • Research and analysis
• Reducing criminal opportunity: vehicle security and vehicle crime
  • 3 January 2016
  • Research and analysis
• Evaluation of independent child trafficking advocates trial: final report
  • 17 December 2015
  • Research and analysis
• The nature of online offending
  • 15 October 2015
  • Research and analysis
• Crime and the value of stolen goods
  • 15 October 2015
  • Research and analysis
• An evaluation of government and law enforcement interventions aimed at reducing metal theft
  • 6 February 2015
  • Research and analysis
• The heroin epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s and its effect on crime trends - then and now
  • 22 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• The start of a criminal career: does debut offence predict future offending?
  • 28 November 2013
  • Research and analysis
• Evaluation of the pilot of Domestic Violence Protection Orders
  • 25 November 2013
  • Research and analysis
• Understanding organised crime: estimating the scale and the social and economic costs
  • 27 February 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Understanding criminal careers in organised crime
  • 7 October 2013
  • Research and analysis
• Cyber crime: a review of the evidence
  • 7 October 2013
  • Research and analysis
• Commercial Victimisation Survey 2012: feasibility report
  • 4 December 2012
  • Research and analysis
• National Fraud Authority (NFA) framework agreement
  • 3 December 2012
  • Policy paper
• The contribution of financial investigation to tackling organised crime: a qualitative study
  • 5 September 2012
  • Research and analysis
• Learning from the neighbourhood agreements pathfinder programme
  • 30 July 2012
  • Research and analysis
• Assessing young people in police custody: an examination of triage schemes
  • 30 July 2012
  • Research and analysis
• Public attitudes to youth crime: report on focus group research
  • 30 July 2012
  • Research and analysis
• An estimate of youth crime in England and Wales: Police recorded crime committed by young people in 2009/10
  • 24 May 2012
  • Research and analysis
• Delivering neighbourhood policing in partnership
  • 23 May 2012
  • Research and analysis
• Practitioners' perceptions of the role of Neighbourhood Crime and Justice co-ordinators
  • 23 May 2012
  • Research and analysis
• The Drug Data Warehouse: Linking data on drug misusers and drug-misusing offenders
  • 19 March 2012
  • Research and analysis
• Two evaluations of Home Office Alcohol Arrest Referral pilot schemes
  • 8 March 2012
  • Research and analysis
• Evaluation of alcohol arrest referral pilot schemes
  • 8 March 2012
  • Research and analysis
• Evaluation of Alcohol Arrest Referral pilot schemes: phase 1
  • 8 March 2012
  • Research and analysis
• Future directions for organised crime research
  • 1 December 2011
  • Research and analysis
• Criminal records regime: review
  • 30 November 2011
  • Guidance
• An overview of recorded crimes and arrests resulting from disorder events in August 2011
  • 24 October 2011
  • Research and analysis
• British Crime Survey: feasibility of boosting Police Force Area (PFA) sample sizes
  • 18 October 2011
  • Research and analysis
• Tackling organised crime at the local level: a process evaluation
  • 28 July 2011
  • Research and analysis
• Khat: social harms and legislation a literature review
  • 15 July 2011
  • Research and analysis
• Supporting high risk victims of domestic violence
  • 15 July 2011
  • Guidance
• British Crime Survey: intimate personal violence split-sample experiment
  • 14 July 2011
  • Guidance
• Exploring the links between homicide and organised crime summary
  • 8 June 2011
  • Research and analysis
• The effectiveness of partnership working in a crime and disorder context
  • 31 March 2011
  • Research and analysis
• Assessing interventions to address anti-social behaviour
  • 31 March 2011
  • Research and analysis
• An assessment of the Tackling Knives and Serious Youth Violence Action Programme (TKAP): phase ll
  • 24 March 2011
  • Research and analysis
• Protection of Freedoms Bill: useful documents
  • 11 February 2011
  • Policy paper
• National Biometric Identity Service agreement
  • 1 February 2011
  • Guidance
• Reviewing Priority 44 Programme: process evaluation of a Home Office crime reduction initiative
  • 2 December 2010
  • Research and analysis
• Process evaluation of data sharing between emergency departments and Community Safety Partnerships in the South East
  • 2 December 2010
  • Research and analysis
• Information sharing aimed at reducing violent crime: A survey of Community Safety Partnerships
  • 2 December 2010
  • Research and analysis
• A qualitative study of a dedicated sexual assault investigation unit
  • 2 December 2010
  • Research and analysis
• British Crime Survey: interpersonal violence question development
  • 21 October 2010
  • Guidance
• Perceptions of the social harms associated with khat use
  • 11 October 2010
  • Research and analysis
• Antisocial behaviour information by Crime and disorder reduction partnership
  • 6 August 2010
  • Research and analysis
• Determining identity and nationality in local policing
  • 2 August 2010
  • Research and analysis
• The drivers of perceptions of anti-social behaviour
  • 9 March 2010
  • Research and analysis
• Business crime scoping exercise
  • 3 March 2010
  • Research and analysis
• Summary of key findings from the Drug Treatment Outcomes Research Study (DTORS)
  • 14 December 2009
  • Research and analysis
• Exploration of local variations in the use of anti-social behaviour tools and powers
  • 2 December 2009
  • Research and analysis
• The Offending, Crime and Justice survey: longitudinal analysis, 2003 to 06
  • 6 November 2009
  • Research and analysis
• Examining attrition in confiscating the proceeds of crime
  • 13 July 2009
  • Research and analysis
• Public concerns about organised crime
  • 13 July 2009
  • Research and analysis
• Organised immigration crime: a post conviction study
  • 13 July 2009
  • Research and analysis
• Business views of organised crime
  • 4 December 2008
  • Research and analysis
• British Crime Survey: options for extending the coverage to children and people living in communal establishments
  • 15 May 2008
  • Research and analysis
• Measuring different aspects of problem drug use: methodological developments
  • 23 November 2006
  • Research and analysis
• Findings from the 2004 to 2005 British crime survey
  • 19 October 2006
  • Research and analysis
• Crime against retail and manufacturing premises: findings from the 2002 Commercial Victimisation Survey
  • 26 November 2004
  • Research and analysis
• Defining and measuring anti-social behaviour
  • 10 August 2004
  • Research and analysis

Guidance

• Social network analysis: How to guide
  • 13 January 2016
  • Guidance

Published 7 October 2013
Last updated 21 May 2024 + show all updates

1. 21 May 2024

   Added 'Independent Child Trafficking Guardian (ICTG) MSA evaluation' and 'An evaluation of the pilot to devolve decision-making for child victims of modern slavery'.

2. 10 April 2024

   Added 'Safety of Women at Night Fund evaluation', 'Evaluation of the Safer Streets Fund round 2, year ending March 2022' and 'Evaluation of the Safer Streets Fund round 3, year ending March 2022'.

3. 15 February 2024

   Added 'Hot spot policing in England and Wales, year ending March 2022'.

4. 25 January 2024

   Added 'The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on crime demand and charge volumes'.

5. 20 December 2023

   Added 'Violence Reduction Units 2022 to 2023'.

6. 4 August 2023

   Added 'Evaluating the Support for Migrant Victims (SMV) Pilot'.

7. 3 May 2023

   Added 'Economic Crime Survey 2020'

8. 31 January 2023

   Added 'Violence Reduction Unit, year ending March 2022 evaluation report'.

9. 11 January 2023

   Added 'Safer Streets Fund evaluation'.

10. 8 June 2022

    Added 'Digital evidence in appeal judgement transcripts'.

11. 1 April 2022

    Added 'Violence reduction unit year ending March 2021 evaluation report'.

12. 10 May 2021

    Removed 'Review of the controlling or coercive behaviour offence'.

13. 4 May 2021

    Added 'Economic crime research strategy: Home Office research priorities'.

14. 1 March 2021

    Added 'Review of the controlling or coercive behaviour offence'.

15. 4 February 2021

    Added 'The motivations of offenders who carry and use acid and other corrosives in criminal acts'.

16. 29 October 2020

    Added new publications.

17. 9 September 2020

    Added 'An analysis of Disclosure and Barring Service applications for 2015 to 2016'.

18. 21 August 2020

    Added 'Violence Reduction Unit evaluation, 2019 to 2020'.

19. 13 April 2020

    Annexes added to 'Trends and drivers of homicide: Main findings'.

20. 19 March 2020

    Added 'Successes and challenges of delivering hate crime community projects '.

21. 5 March 2020

    Added 'Trends and drivers of homicide: Main findings'.

22. 23 July 2019

    Added 'An analysis of indicators of serious violence: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study and the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study'.

23. 22 July 2019

    Added 'An evaluation of Independent Child Trafficking Guardians - early adopter sites: Final report'.

24. 11 March 2019

    Updated 'Understanding organised crime April 2015 to March 2016' to a second edition.

25. 21 January 2019

    Added 'The economic and social costs of domestic abuse'.

26. 1 November 2018

    Added ‘Understanding organised crime April 2015 to March 2016’, ‘Exploring the role of the Financial Investigator’ and ‘Serious and Organised Crime: Home Office research priorities April 2018 to March 2021’.

27. 6 August 2018

    Updated 'The economic and social costs of crime second edition'.

28. 30 July 2018

    Added 'The economic and social costs of modern slavery' and 'An assessment of Independent Child Trafficking Advocates: Interim findings'.

29. 23 July 2018

    Added 'The economic and social costs of crime'.

30. 16 July 2018

    Added 'The scale and nature of fraud: a review of the evidence'.

31. 26 October 2017

    Added 'An evaluation of the National Referral Mechanism pilot'.

32. 17 October 2017

    Added 'A typology of modern slavery offences in the UK'.

33. 21 January 2016

    Added ‘New opiate and crack-cocaine users: characteristics and trends’ and ‘Impact of the reduction in heroin supply between 2010 and 2011’.

34. 3 January 2016

    Added 'Reducing criminal opportunity: vehicle security and vehicle crime'.

35. 17 December 2015

    Added 'Evaluation of Independent Child Trafficking Advocates trial: Final report'.

36. 16 October 2015

    Added 'The nature of online offending' and 'Crime and the value of stolen goods'.

37. 6 February 2015

    Updated 'An evaluation of government and law enforcement interventions aimed at reducing metal theft' with a data table supplied from the British Transport Police.

38. 28 January 2015

    Added 'An evaluation of government and law enforcement interventions aimed at reducing metal theft'.

39. 27 November 2013

    Added 'The start of a criminal career: does debut offence predict future offending?'.

40. 25 November 2013

    Added 'Evaluation of the Pilot of Domestic Violence Protection Orders'.

41. 7 October 2013

    First published.