Criminal Activity and Education in The UK Statistics Project

Criminal Activity and Education in The UK - Statistics Project display caseFrom the essay it is clear that that tougher prison sentences reduce crime, particularly burglary. According to the Guardian, seek suggests an increase in sentence length for serious offenders can cut burglaries. A research paper on Male unemployment and crimes in England and Wales by Carmichael & Ward indicated that there is a systematic positive relationship between most crime and male unemployment regardless of age. Their results indicated that both the youth and adult male unemployment rates are consistently and importantly positively related to burglary, theft, fraud and forgery and total crime. According to Machin, Marie & Vuji, crime is significantly related to education, curiously in the case of property crimes. They find that criminal activity is negatively associated with higher levels of education. Machin, et al research suggests that improving education can yield significant social benefits an d can be a make out policy tool in the drive to reduce crime. There are many diagrams in the name which shows that the correlation coefficient think of of -0.011 indicates no linear relationship between burglary rate and % of crimes solved. The correlation coefficient value of -0.149 indicates actually weak negative linear relationship between burglary rate and average sentence length. The correlation coefficient value of 0.599 indicates strong positive linear relationship between burglary rate and male unemployment rate.