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THE RECORDING OF CRIME IN ENGLAND AND WALES

01 January 1991

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THE RECORDING OF CRIME IN ENGLAND AND WALES
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JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 011903 , Acc Date = 01-Dec-87
T Benn , Home Office Statistical Department
Stat News, Aug 1987 (78) pp21-24

Discusses the usefulness, and limitations, of the quarterly Home
Office statistics of notifiable offences comprising most types
of indictable offence which can be tried before a jury in the
Crown Court. The statistics are of interest to policy makers,
the public and the media but have important limitations resulting
from the under-reporting of crime, variations in recording
practices between police forces, and the lack of detail given
about individual crimes. Despite the media concentration on
serious theft and crimes against the person these constitute only
6% of the total. Old people, for example, are far less likely to
experience theft or assault than the young. The statistics may
be more useful as a measure of police workloads but should be
treated with caution. 9 references .

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