National policy shocks affecting stop and search or recorded crime

A curated table of dated national events for use as default intervention definitions in lamp_treatment(): the Best Use of Stop and Search Scheme, the 2019 and later changes to Section 60 authorisation conditions, COVID-19 lockdown periods, changes to crime recording practice, and other verified policy changes. Every row carries the source that establishes its dates; see inst/NOTES/data_sources.md in the package sources for the verification record.

Usage

lamp_shocks()

Value

A tibble with columns name (identifier), label, kind (stop_search_policy, crime_policy, covid, recording_practice or disorder), start and end (Date; end is NA for point events or regimes still in force), scope (national, england, wales or forces), forces (semicolon-separated police.uk force identifiers when scope is forces, otherwise NA), source_url, notes and verified (Date the source was checked).

See also

Other bundled data: lamp_area_lookup(), lamp_bank_holidays(), lamp_crime_types(), lamp_deprivation(), lamp_forces(), lamp_lsoa_lookup(), lamp_outcome_types(), lamp_sample_panel()

Examples

shocks <- lamp_shocks()
shocks[shocks$kind == "stop_search_policy", c("name", "start", "end")]
#> # A tibble: 11 × 3
#>    name                                 start      end       
#>    <chr>                                <date>     <date>    
#>  1 stop_search_reform_announcement      2014-04-30 NA        
#>  2 buss_launch                          2014-08-26 2021-07-27
#>  3 pace_code_a_2015                     2015-03-19 2023-01-16
#>  4 met_violent_crime_task_force         2018-04-01 NA        
#>  5 s60_pilot_seven_forces               2019-04-01 2019-08-10
#>  6 s60_relaxation_all_forces            2019-08-11 NA        
#>  7 beating_crime_plan_s60_permanent     2021-07-27 NA        
#>  8 home_secretary_s60_letter_2022       2022-05-16 NA        
#>  9 pace_code_a_2023                     2023-01-17 NA        
#> 10 svro_pilot                           2023-04-19 2025-04-18
#> 11 public_order_act_2023_protest_search 2023-12-20 NA