The Townsend Index has been used to study crime pattern analysis in many studies (see for example, Craglia et al., 2000; and Craglia et al., 2001). The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) developed by the Index Team at Oxford University for the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions is another index which has been accepted as useful for studying crime. The IMD 2000 was constructed by combining the six domain scores, using the following weights