What is the crime rate for Buckinghamshire?

Answer 1

There were 94 felonious killings recorded by coroners' courts in Buckinghamshire over the period 1373 to 1389. This out of a total population for the cont of perhaps 100,000. That makes the annual murder rate 7.2 per 100,000 for the county seven centuries ago. The penalty for murder then was hanging. What the murder rate is for the present day Thames Valley Police area or for modern Bucks is not easily found out. However, in 2011, there were 117 homicides in the Metropolitan Police district of London, out of a population of 7.5 million. There had been 222 ten years earlier. The London murder rate therefore is about 1.8 per 100,000 in the twenty first century, about a quarter what it was seven hundred years ago in Bucks when murderers could be hung - or have their guts cut out, or be blinded, or castrated. Modern Bucks has a lower murder rate than London, but I cannot find the stats.