New research: Racial Disparities in Homicide Victimisation Rates: How to Improve Transparency by the Office of National Statistics in England and Wales

New research conducted by Sumit Kumar, Professor Lawrence Sherman and Dr Heather Strang, which was recently published in the article, 'Racial Disparities in Homicide Victimisation Rates: How to Improve Transparency by the Office of National Statistics in England and Wales', in the Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing (2020) has concluded that:

• certain ethnicities have a higher risk of being a victim of homicide;

• changing the way that the Office of National Statistics report these statistics could provide more useful information, which could in turn empower police to target racial disparities in a more precise way.

Their research findings are discussed further in this report on the University of Cambridge Research page:

Ethic minorities at much higher risk of homicide in England and Wales