Stay-at-home policies put into effect to help control the spread of Covid-19 were linked with a 37% average reduction in crime in 27 cities across 23 countries, an international team of researchers reported Wednesday.
Lockdowns have stopped people moving. And fugitives are running out of hiding placesRobberies and thefts fell the most -- by 46% -- perhaps as people stayed at home instead of going to work. Homicides fell 14%, the researchers reported in the journal Nature Human Behaviour."Our findings show that the stay-at-home policies were associated with a substantial drop in urban crime," Amy Nivette, of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and colleagues around the world wrote.
The strictness of lockdown laws did not seem to directly correlate with changes in crime, the researchers found."The results show that more severe restrictions on school opening, working from home, public events, private gatherings and internal movement are not significantly related to the size of effects, with one exception: More stringent reductions or closures of public transportation are associated with more negative effect sizes for robbery and vehicle theft only," they wrote.
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