Instructions

Instructions

The outbreak of Covid-19 in early 2020 lead to large scale lockdowns across the country. People were working from home, students were studying from home, travel was restricted and most businesses were closed, so there was nowhere to go anyway.

With so many people staying at home, the risk of people getting caught committing crimes such as break & enter and burglary of households increased as there was a much higher chance of someone being home.

Click on the tab for each state to see the history of crimes recorded from January 2014 to March 2021 and to see the change from April 2020 onwards.

The categories used to record crimes under varies from state to state. The numbers of crimes recorded in each state should not be compared to each other for this reason and also due to population differences, however, the impact of Covid-19 can still be seen within each state from April 2020.

The categories of crimes included for each state were:

• ACT: Burglary
• NSW: Break and enter dwelling; Steal from dwelling
• NT: House break-ins, actual; House break-ins, attempted
• QLD: Unlawful entry with intent - dwelling; Unlawful entry without violence - dwelling; Stealing from dwellings
• SA: Other - unlawful entry with intent
• VIC: Residential non-aggravated burglary (data reported annually)
• WA: Burglary

Data is monthly unless stated otherwise.

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References

References

• Commonwealth of Australia 2021, Crime Statistics, Australian Federal Police, viewed October 24, 2021, https://www.policenews.act.gov.au/crime-statistics-and-data/crime-statistics

• Government of South Australia 2021, Crime Statistics, South Australia Police, viewed October 24, 2021, https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/crime-statistics

• Government of Western Australia 2021, Crime Statistics, Western Australia Police Force, viewed October 24, 2021, https://www.police.wa.gov.au/Crime/CrimeStatistics#/

• Northern Territory Government, Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services 2021, Statistical publications, NT Police Force, viewed October 24, 2021, https://pfes.nt.gov.au/police/community-safety/nt-crime-statistics/statistical-publications

• O’Brien, J, et al 2021, Confirmed COVID-19 cases in each state and territory: total and per capita, www.Covid19data.com.au, viewed October 24, 2021, https://www.covid19data.com.au/states-and-territories

• State Government of Victoria 2021, Crime Statistics Agency Data Tables - Criminal Incidents, Crime Statistics Agency, viewed October 24, 2021, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/crime-by-location-data-table

• State of New South Wales (Department of Communities and Justice) 2021, Open Data - Offence, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, viewed October 24, 2021, https://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/Pages/bocsar_datasets/Offence.aspx

• The State of Queensland 2021, Offence numbers - police regions - monthly from July 2001, Queensland Government, viewed October 24, 2021, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/offence-numbers-police-regions-monthly-from-july-2001/resource/a7a1a283-e645-4f2e-b83e-3d344ea676c9