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Chapter XII

Research

INTRODUCTION

12.1

(a)

(b)

(c)

The Research Sub-Committee (RSC) continued

to identify areas of criminal activity, groups of criminals and potential criminals, towards which the sub- committee considers it practical to direct crime prevention programmes;

to oversee the establishment of the Standardised Law and Order Statistical System (SLOSS); and

to examine the need for a more sophisticated Integrated Law and Order Statictical System (ILOSS), which would greatly assist the Government better to target its efforts against crime.

This chapter briefly sets out the work done by the RSC during the period under review.

CRIME IN PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATES 1984

12.2

In March 1985, the Fight Crime Committee considered a study on the involvement of juveniles and young persons in crime. Some Members expressed doubts on the finding that young public housing estate residents are more involved in violent crime than young persons not living in public housing estates. The impression was that the crime level in public housing estates had always been lower. The RSC asked the Police to conduct a detailed study on this subject. A report was subsequently compiled, with information obtained from crimes reported to the Police and persons apprehended in 1984.

Crime level in public housing estate buildings

12.3

As regards the crime level in public housing estate buildings, the report revealed that the rates per 100,000 population living in public housing estates for the following offences were higher than the rates for those living in private residential blocks :

(a) serious assault;

(b)

snatching;

(c)

trafficking in dangerous drugs; and

(d) rape and indecent assault on a female.

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