European Crime Data

Description

This data set refers to crime in European countries during 2008. The sources are World Bank and Eurostat. The crime statistics refers to homicides. It avoids possible reporting bias from the presence of police officers, because homicide reporting in most countries is standardized. Typical usage is: data(EuroCrime);attach(EuroCrime). The secondary source ‘quandl.com’ was used for collecting these data.

Details

The variables included in the dataset are:

• Country Name of the European country

• crim Per capita crime rate

• off Per capita deployment of police officers