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DUBLIN Pandemic lockdowns coincided with "significant" falls in crime rates in 27 cities across 23 countries, according to academics from the University of Cambridge and the University of Utrecht. The research, which was published on Wednesday in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, suggested that rates of "most types of crime" dropped "significantly" in the wake of an "unparalleled sudden change in daily life." However, homicides fell by a relatively low 14 per cent overall in what the team said was "a key exception" to their findings. With people in many cities forced to mostly stay at home by pandemic-related curbs, Amy Nivette of the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands, said "restrictions on urban mobility may have little effect on domestic murders." ....
Daily crime counts before and after COVID-19 restrictions were implemented in major metropolitan areas such as Barcelona and London show that while stringency of lockdowns varied considerably from city to city, most types of crime fell significantly. Overall, stricter lockdowns led to greater declines in crime, but even cities with voluntary recommendations instead of restrictions, such as Malmo and Stockholm in Sweden, saw drops in daily rates of theft, according to the study led by researchers at the universities of Cambridge and Utrecht. Across 27 cities worldwide, daily assaults fell by an average of 35%, robberies involving violence or intimidation almost halved, falling an average of 46%, and other types of theft, from pick pocketing to shoplifting, fell an average of 47%. ....