5 Aug 2009

Update: OAC analyses in Home Office crime report; and slides available for OACUG visualisation in geodemographics seminar

Posted by Martin

OAC has been used for the first time to analyse figures in the recent Home Office report; Crime in England and Wales 2008/2009, and shows some telling associations with OAC super groups.

The above link opens to an introduction and index which helpfully allows downloads of pdfs of sections of the otherwise bulky report.
The following chapters are worth checking for OAC content:

Chapter 5 – Public perceptions (pdf, 140KB)

Chapter 6 –Detection of crime (pdf, 60KB)

Chapter 7 – Geographic patterns of crime (pdf, 236KB)

The OAC User Group would like to thank all those who participated in Developments in Geodemographic Visualisation on 15 September; slides from the talk are available.

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