Effects of Pandemic Response Measures on Crime Counts in English and Welsh Local Authorities
Journal: Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
Year: 2024

The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic between January 2020 and late 2021 saw extraordinary measures such as lockdowns and other restrictions being placed on citizens' movements in many of the world's major cities. In many of these cities, lockdowns required citizens to stay at home; non-essential business premises were closed, and movement was severely restricted. In this paper, we investigate the effect of these lockdowns and other pandemic response measures on crime counts within the lo