Measuring Crime
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Crime statistics measure recorded events, not events, so they move with reporting rates, policing intensity, and definitions as well as with conduct.
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A rise in recorded offenses can follow a campaign encouraging victims to report.
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Read every crime figure as a rate, and ask what the denominator and the definition were.
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