Please note that this data tool was updated on 16 June 2017. Most crime analysis is based on counts of crimes, but not all crimes are equivalent to one another.

The index can potentially aid the judiciary in sentencing and help to illuminate the true nature of changes in the crime rate. In 1977, 60,000 persons rated the gravity of 25 specific criminal events as part of this survey.

Researchers have recently developed two methods—the Crime Harm Index and the Crime Severity Score—for weighting crime counts according to the severity of different crime types.

Data is based on crimes reported to the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) and submitted to Statistics Canada using UCR2 data (uniform-crime-reporting).

It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide, This PDF is available to Subscribers Only. Published by Oxford University Press. (2005) , The Canadian Crime Severity Index ( Statistics Canada, 2015), and the New Zealand Justice Sector Seriousness Score ( Sullivan and Su-Wuen, 2012) have all employed methods based on the court records of actual sentences handed down to offenders.

Calculate the Initial Accident Rate (IAR) using the formula shown. The ‘court records’ approach: Francis et al. The severity rate is a calculation that gives a company an average of the number of lost days per recordable incident. You’ve accepted all cookies. That data is broken down further into violent CSI and non-violent CSI. Full report (PDF) Help for using BJS products. All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated, /peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeseverityscoredatatool. The results of severity-weighted crime analysis (and the decision made based on them) could therefore be greatly influenced by the method chosen. Please note that this data tool was updated on 16 June 2017. They also take white-collar and drug-related crime quite seriously.

All rights reserved. Ensuring police resources are focused where they are most needed requires understanding of the consequences of crime in relation to offenders, victims, and places. Don't already have an Oxford Academic account? To purchase short term access, please sign in to your Oxford Academic account above. The Index is based on the crime rate per 1,000 population for all crimes in a specific neighborhood or city. For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual subscription. Apply the correct Safety Index formula and calculate … One data limitation is that if people experience crime but do not report it, it will not be captured here.

The calculation is made by dividing the total number of lost workdays by the total number of recordable incidents.

As crime is impacted by many factors, Edmonton Crime Severity Index is considered an indicator. Please check your email address / username and password and try again. Search for other works by this author on: © The Author 2017.