Noemí Pereda is a lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology, director of the Research Group on Children and Adolescent Victimization (GReVIA) and researcher at the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB.
Noemí Pereda is a lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology, director of the Research Group on Children and Adolescent Victimization (GReVIA) and researcher at the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB. The lockdown policies that resulted from the COVID-19 epidemic involved an important decrease in urban crimes director of the Research Group on Children and Adolescent Victimization ( GReVIA ) of the UB. The study compared the effects of these policies in crime levels in 26 cities from 23 counties, using data gathered by the police on six kinds of crimes: assault (without intrafamily violence), robbery, burglary, thefts, vehicle theft, and homicide. The results show that Barcelona, the only Spanish city included in the study, is one of the places where crimes were reduced the most, decreasing by 80% during lockdown, together with Lima (Peru) and Mendoza (Argentina). This descriptive study was led by the Institute of Criminology of Cambridge and Utrecht University, and counted on the participation of 26 research institutions from different countries. The study is also signed by Raül Aguilar, member of the Policia de la Generalitat - Mossos d'Esquadra (autonomous police force of the Catalan Government), doctor in Law and Society, psychologist and criminologist, who has given technical advice in the Barcelona data analysis. The impact of a strict home confinement The researchers analysed data on the registered crimes from early 2018 to May 15, 2020.
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