A UK study of data on more than 30,000 crimes sheds new light on crime after dark, suggesting that the overall risk of crime rises when darkness falls, but that risk varies depending on type of crime and geographical area. Jim Uttley of the University of Sheffield, UK, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One.
In UK study, the risk of certain types of crime, but not others, increase after dark
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