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Table 3 Timeline dates with changes in mobility and crime

From: Crime and coronavirus: social distancing, lockdown, and the mobility elasticity of crime

Period

Date & event

Mobility change

Crime change

1

11 March 2020: WHO ‘global pandemic’ announcement

Increased mobility around grocery stores until lockdown

‘All crime’ decline begins;

Declines begin for theft (other theft), theft from vehicles and recorded sex offences

2

16 March 2020: No none-essential travel—‘formal social distancing’

Onset of decreases at Retail & recreation, and Workplaces.

Onset of increase at residential areas

Assaults decline begins (subsequent weekend spikes were absent). Shoplifting decline begins

3

20 March 2020:

Closure of bars, restaurants. gyms etc

 

Criminal damage decline begins (weekend spikes absent);

Public disorder decline begins

4

23 March 2020:

National lockdown

Decreased mobility around grocery stores begins

Burglary decline begins;

Theft of vehicles decline begins