British Crime

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This essay takes a look at how crime is recorded in the British Crime Survey and criminal statistics. These are compared to see if the criminal statistics are a true level of the crime in Britain. This essay looks into the home office criminal statistics, the British crime survey and the police recorded crime statistics. These are then compared with what is the definition of crime, definitions of different forms of crime and the way in which they are reported.

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"To examine the extent to which criminal statistics present a true record of the level of crime in Britain, it is imperative to research into what is the definition of "crime". How the Police Recorded Crime statistics and the British Crime Survey (BCS) record crime in Britain, and the ways that it is reported in the criminal statistics. It can be argued that not all crimes are recorded by the police; as a result it is essential to see how this affects the criminal statistics. Furthermore if there is not a requirement to report crime, for example insurance purposes, or there is a fear of reporting crimes it is imperative to consider crimes not reported to the police and how this also affects criminal statistics and if there is a way of discovering crimes not reported. It will subsequently be beneficial to compare and contrast criminal statistics and the level of crime in Britain to investigate if criminal statistics are a true record of the level of crime in Britain. (Tierney, 1996)"

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