Explore relationships

Once hotspot profiles and profiles of other types of information have been gathered for the focus area, these resources can help to explore possible causal relationships between community safety problems and the local environment. At this stage look to explore the following:

• Is there a disproportionate volume of types of victims in this area, against what would be expected if all conditions were equal?

• Is there a relationship between the distribution of crime and disorder and local physical and social-economic conditions? (e.g. relationships between deprivation and high crime and disorder rates?)

• Is there a relationship between the location of certain local services and facilities (e.g. licensed premises) and crime or disorder activity?

• What offender information can be used and linked to the crimes that they are accused of committing? (e.g. exploring prominent offending and offender journeys to crime)

• Are there certain offending individuals or problem families that are prominent in each partners information sets.

Developing a good understanding of the reasons that generate crime and disorder in an activity area will help to develop a strategy for directing crime and disorder reduction resources.

Different crimes and disorder incidents require different strategies. Make use of the crime and disorder specific toolkits to help design a strategy for reducing crime and disorder in the focus area.