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Violence and crimes in the province of Buenos Aires. 2009-2012: An analysis based on the official statistics
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Abstract

The report presents unprecedented data recovering the year-on-year trend in crimes of homicide, attempted murder, injuries and thefts between 2009-2012. As the introduction shows, one of the first obstacles to building a medium- and long-term diagnosis of violence and crime in the province of Buenos Aires is linked to the lack of comparable and reliable data that would allow strong statements to be made about the increase or decline in certain phenomena. The novelty of this publication is that it progresses in the territorial distribution of this historical sequence (2009-2012), discriminating by judicial department, calculating the rates according to the different populations and analysing the evolution over the four years recorded. We will work on data on murder and violent deaths, in which the distance between crime and reported crime is very small. We will also explore under-worked crimes in other investigations such as attempted homicide, injuries and robbery with firearms, which will be used as indicators to explore the territorialisation of interpersonal violence and to develop new scenarios. Some of the central findings identify the decrease in malicious homicides between 2008 and 2012 (last year of release). While the rate of intentional killings per 100 thousand inhabitants in 2008 was 9,6 homicides, in 2012 it was 7,6 homicides. This decrease should be framed in a more far-reaching downward line than, although we cannot compare with the same certainty for the years prior to 2008, it would start in 2003, following the peaks of intentional homicides that occurred between 2001 and 2002. In return, there has been an increase in some crimes that we have selected as indicators of interpersonal violence. Finally, the high inequality between the indicators of violence affecting the different territorial jurisdictions into which the province is divided is highlighted.

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