Criminal Statistics and the Construction of Crime

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    Abstract

    This chapter explores a number of interrelated questions about ‘crime levels’, ‘crime patterns’, and ‘crime trends’ and how they are measured. These range from what may sound like (but are not) straightforward empirical and methodological questions, such as ‘how much crime is there?’, ‘how is it changing?’, and ‘how do we know?’, to more sociological and political questions about the relationships between, on the one hand, the kinds of crime data which are collected and published and, on the other, changing perceptions of the nature of ‘the crime problem’ and developments in criminal justice policy and the politics of crime control.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe Oxford Handbook of Criminology
    EditorsMike Maguire, Rod Morgan, Robert Reiner
    PublisherOxford University Press
    Pages206-244
    Edition5th
    Publication statusPublished - 2012

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