Since publishing my book everyone has been asking me what my next project is, and I haven't found one .... yet, but I do keep drifting back to the subject of crime ..... I can't imagine why

Anyway whilst poking around in old newspapers, which are always a good starting point I came across this set of crime statistics from 1822:






It took me a while to work out what the bottom was actually depicting, but I THINK it is showing the difference between 1820 and 1821 when there was a fall in the rate of crime.