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Outline and asses the different ways of measuring crime
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... Outline and asses the different ways of measuring crime There are three ways of measuring crime, the first and most famous way is the usage of official crime statistics created by the government. In spite of this it is felt that two other methods, victim surveys and self report surveys are necessary as problems with the official statistics are plentiful. The different schools of thought have varying perspectives on the usefulness of generating measurable crime statistics and the validity of each method. Official crime statistics are compiled by the home office every 6 months to gain an understanding of the trends in crime. The home office assembles convicted crimes after they have been reported, a person or persons has been charged and convicted by the courts. Early Positivists were completely accepting of official statistics claming them to be an accurate way of measuring crime. However feminists argued that official statistics could not reflect














