Measuring Crime
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077988 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roland Chilton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosm059 |
| OpenAlex | W4241823306 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
All crime measures begin as attempts to count either incidents considered criminal or the people involved in such incidents. These basic counts may be combined, summarized, or modified in complex ways, but they are at the heart of all attempts to measure crime. Such counts can be generated by police departments or other public agencies or they can be created by anyone willing to design and use a questionnaire or interview schedule. Police measures include counts of offenses coming to their attention and counts of offenders based either on statements of victims and witnesses or direct police observation. Some police measures are counts of arrests or counts of the types of persons arrested. Other official agency measures are counts of prosecutions, convictions, persons in prison, or those under some kind of supervision imposed as a result of conviction for criminal conduct
Agency (philosophy · Conviction · Criminology · Political science · Prison · Schedule · Sociology · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Law · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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