There has been a substantial fall in rates of property theft and violent crime in the UK. The author surveys a series of CEP studies that shed light on this transformation - what BBC home editor Mark Easton has labelled the country's 'riddle of peacefulness'.

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27 June 2013     Paper Number CEPCP392

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This CentrePiece article is published under the centre's Growth programme.