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SUMMARY:Counting Crime the Cambridge Way - Professor Larry Sherman\, Insti
 tute of Criminology\, University of Cambridge\; Emeritus Fellow\, Darwin C
 ollege
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CONTACT:Dr Jenny Zhao
DESCRIPTION:For two centuries\, governments have mindlessly counted all cr
 imes as if they were created equal. The crime “rate” per 100\,000 stil
 l treats murder and shoplifting as of equal importance. In the past decade
 \, the Cambridge Institute of Criminology has managed to push public data 
 to greater precision in crime counting. Our method calibrates the relative
  seriousness of crime based on days of imprisonment recommended for each c
 rime type under judicial guidelines for sentencing convicted offenders\, t
 hen sums those recommended days across all crimes after each crime has bee
 n multiplied by its sentencing weight. Our 2007 proposal for the Cambridge
  Crime Harm Index has been followed by the development of a variety of “
 crime severity indexes” in Canada\, New Zealand\, Sweden\, Denmark\, Aus
 tralia and (eventually) the UK\, although not all of them measure what mat
 ters most to crime victims. Yet what difference does it make? Does countin
 g crime with a weighted index offer any real improvements in public safety
 ? Do police do different things with this information than they do without
  it? Can offenders cause\, and victims suffer\, less harm in total because
  the Cambridge CHI is used to measure crime harm? Answers to these and oth
 er questions will be revealed on 16th October in the Richard King Room at 
 Darwin College.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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