HC Deb 27 February 1996 vol 272 cc495-6W
Mr. Rooker

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the research projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department in each of the past 10 years which included discussion of possible relationships between levels of crime and unemployment; and if he will make a statement. [16405]

Mr. Maclean

There have been four projects of this description.

These are:

  • Field, S. (1990). "Trends in Crime and their Interpretation" Home Office Research Study No. 119.
  • Leitner, M., Shapland, J. and Wiles, P. (1993) "Drugs Usage and Drugs Prevention; The Views and Habits of the General Public" HMSO.
  • Orme, J. (1994) "A Study of the Relationship between Unemployment and Recorded Crime" Home Office Statistical Findings 1/94.
  • Graham, J. and Bowling, B. (1995) "Young People and Crime" Home Office Research Study No. 145.