{"id":1001,"date":"2013-04-26T12:04:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T12:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialscienceslibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:57","slug":"uk-peace-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2013\/04\/26\/uk-peace-index\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Peace Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Institute for Economics and Peace, United Kingdom Peace Index <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visionofhumanity.org\/unitedkingdompeaceindex\/2013\/\">http:\/\/www.visionofhumanity.org\/unitedkingdompeaceindex\/2013\/<\/a>\u00a0the UK is 11% per cent more peaceful than it was a decade ago.<br \/>\nThe UKPI measures levels of peace according to five key indicators: the levels of violent crime, homicide, public disorder, weapons crime and the number of police.\u00a0 The main website also has measures of international peacefulness and terrorism which allow some cross-national comparison.<\/p>\n<p>For UK official data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>see the latest crime statistics from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/ons\/taxonomy\/index.html?nscl=Crime+in+England+and+Wales\">Home office via the ONS website <\/a><\/li>\n<li>see the annual crime survey data for information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimesurvey.co.uk\/previous-research.html\">experiences of individuals <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At a local level:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>find out about<a href=\"http:\/\/www.police.uk\/\"> crime in your area (England and Wales)<\/a> and compare it with national averages on the police website\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>there is also the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.met.police.uk\/\">Metropolitan Police mapping site <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu\/statistics_explained\/index.php\/Crime_trends_in_detail\">Eurostat <\/a>has some up to date figures on crime rates across the EU as a whole for total crime levels and different crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Institute for Economics and Peace, United Kingdom Peace Index http:\/\/www.visionofhumanity.org\/unitedkingdompeaceindex\/2013\/\u00a0the UK is 11% per cent more peaceful than it was a decade ago. The UKPI measures levels of peace according to five key indicators: the levels of violent crime, homicide, public disorder, weapons crime and the number of police.\u00a0 The main website [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[234,243,85],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-sociology","tag-criminology","tag-sociology","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5789,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/5789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}