The Queensland Government Statistician’s Office has released its updated crunching of crime data,this time,and figures are flying thick and fast.
The rates of unique adult and child offenders have increased slightly – 1.9 per cent and 2.7 per cent respectively – after a seven-year slide. The rates for offence against people is up 17.7 per cent,and against property,up 17.1 per cent.
But the report comes with important words of warning. The period covered by the report is the first free of pandemic restrictions,which largely.
Increased recording and awareness of domestic violence has driven large spikes in some offences,and political focus on youth crime has pushed greater police attention.
“Given the heightened police presence,higher than usual recorded numbers of youth offenders and offences typically committed by those age groups may not necessarily be indicative of an increased number of youths committing crime but rather a result of increased detection,” the report notes on page two.
The report also makes clear that using the raw counts of statistics,rather than rates per 100,000 estimated residents,is “problematic”,as it doesn’t factor in different population size across different areas,or changes in population over time.
The release of these statistics comes less than a week after the collapse of the cross-party youth justice committee –.