Urban crime decreased by 80% in Barcelona during lockdown
Urban crime decreased by 80% in Barcelona during lockdown The lockdown policies that resulted from the COVID-19 epidemic involved an important decrease in urban crimes, except for homicides, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, which counts on the participation of the lecturer Noemí Pereda, director of the Research Group on Children and Adolescent Victimization (GReVIA) of the Institute of Neurosciendes of the UB. The study compared the effects of these policies in crime levels in 26 cities from 23 counties, using data gathered by the police on six kinds of c...
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