The pandemic has had a dramatic impact on people’s daily routines, it has disrupted business and personal operations globally. But what has been happening to crime rates has received scant attention, at least in public discourse. What we do know is that offenders are good innovators, that they are adept at exploiting new opportunities when current ones are blocked. So how have they adapted and what does this mean for crime prevention? To assess these implications this webinar will focus on what the data tell us and how the trends should be interpreted. This webinar will:

Discuss current crime trends and the ways these have been changed by the pandemic
Examine the implications for crime prevention and security
Evaluate the likely longer terms crime patterns as we move to a post pandemic world

Panellists:
Greg Breetzke – Professor at University of Pretoria (South Africa)
Nick Tilley – Professor at UCL (UK)
Andy Newton – Professor at Nottingham Trent University (UK)

A video and summary of this session is available here: https://www.theospas.com/2021/06/30/the-pandemic-and-crime-rates-insights-from-criminologists/

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