Gray, BJ, Barton, ER, Davies, AR, Long, SJ, Roderick, J and Bellis, MA (2017) A shared data approach more accurately represents the rates and patterns of violence with injury assaults. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 71 (12). pp. 1218-1224. ISSN 0143-005X

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Abstract

Background To investigate whether sharing and linking routinely collected violence data across health and criminal justice systems can provide a more comprehensive understanding of violence, establish patterns of under-reporting and better inform the development, implementation and evaluation of violence prevention initiatives. Methods Police violence with injury (VWI) crimed data and emergency department (ED) assault attendee data for South Wales were collected between 1 April 2014 and 31 March 2016 to examine the rates and patterns of VWI. Person identifiable data (PID) were cross-referenced to establish if certain victims or events were less likely to be reported to criminal justice services. Results A total of 18 316 police crimed VWI victims and 10 260 individual ED attendances with an assault-related injury were considered. The majority of ED assault attendances (59.0%) were unknown to police. The key demographic identified as under-reporting to police were young males aged 18-34 years, while a significant amount of non-reported assaults involved a stranger. The combined monthly age-standardised rates were recalculated and on average were 74.7 (95% CI 72.1 to 77.2) and 66.1 (95% CI 64.0 to 68.2) per 100 000 population for males and females, respectively. Consideration of the additional ED cases resulted in a 35.3% and 18.1% increase on the original police totals for male and female VWI victims. Conclusions This study identified that violence is currently undermeasured, demonstrated the importance of continued sharing of routinely collected ED data and highlighted the benefits of using PID from a number of services in a linked way to provide a more comprehensive picture of violence.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Humans; Wounds and Injuries; Data Collection; Records; Age Distribution; Sex Distribution; Violence; Police; Information Storage and Retrieval; Databases, Factual; Adolescent; Adult; Crime Victims; Emergency Service, Hospital; Female; Male; Young Adult; United Kingdom; injury; prevention; record linkage; violence; Adolescent; Adult; Age Distribution; Crime Victims; Data Collection; Databases, Factual; Emergency Service, Hospital; Female; Humans; Information Storage and Retrieval; Male; Police; Records; Sex Distribution; United Kingdom; Violence; Wounds and Injuries; Young Adult; 1117 Public Health and Health Services; 1604 Human Geography; Epidemiology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisions:	Public Health Institute
Publisher:	BMJ
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	21 Dec 2022 14:35
Last Modified:	21 Dec 2022 14:35
DOI or ID number:	10.1136/jech-2017-209872
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/18485

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