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Fall in crime 'too good to be true'?
The causes of crime, as Richard Garside rightly implies, are themselves far too complex for any apparent falls to be ascribed to one simple explanation....
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The curious case of the fall in crime
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Crime Statistics: Who can we count on?
For those of us engaged in teaching Criminology, perhaps the most surprising (though welcome) thing about the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee's (PASC) report ...
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Crime statistics fiddled in 'target junkie' police culture
A new report from the House of Commons Public Administration Committee claims that there is strong evidence that the...
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Police accused of fiddling crime figures, again
In the latest hearing before the House of Commons Public Administration Committee Professor Mike Hough of Birkbeck, University of London and a member of the Crime Statistics Advisory Board (CSAB) said that some of the falls in police recorded crime levels was down to police misrecording crime...
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Shooting the messenger
PC James Patrick, who last week gave evidence to the House of Commons Public Administration Committee on the 'fiddling' of crime figures, faces a disciplinary hearing next week, The Times reports (...
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Are police too concerned with performance targets?
MPs were yesterday given the low down on what nodding, cuffing, skewing and stitching is in the manipulation of police crime stats. They were told how crime figures have been routinely re categorised, downgraded or even ignored in order to meet performance targets.
These manipulations...