Counting crime

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Data from NGOs and investigative journalism

Informs us about specific types of crime. Reveals more information about the offences.

Dark figure or unreported crime

The volume of crime that is not recorded owing it to being lost from the final count for whatever reason

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Hurdles cause the horses to slow down or fall which results in only a number of horses finishing the race
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Recognition, reporting, recording

  1. The need for a crime to be recognised as having taken place or the recognition that the behaviours which have occurred are illegal in the first place
  2. not all crimes are reported
  3. many crimes are not formally recorded

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