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UNDERSTANDING CRIMINAL STATISTICS

01 January 1991

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UNDERSTANDING CRIMINAL STATISTICS
refdoc July=1991

BOOKS/PAMPHLETS User Ref = P59749
NACRO
NACRO, Mar 1986 4pp (NACRO Briefing) RP59749A

Report on the problems of understanding criminal statistics as
they do not reveal the true extent of crime but portray the total
`serious' or `notifiable' offences known to the police. Concludes
that the official crime statistics represent a surface appearance
of reality, but they should not be confused with it. Unless the
official figures are supplemented with information from sources
such as the British Crime Survey , from self-report and the
victim studies, and while crucial factors such as the influence
of police discretion are ignored in their interpretation,
official statistics can only provide a partial and selective
account.

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