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Assess the usefulness of criminal statistics as a measure of actual crime Criminal Statistics are statistics that are compiled from records from local police stations. From these statistics we are able to see what type of people commit what types of crime, which are the most common crimes and they also show rises in particular crimes and rises in crime generally. However these statistics are heavily criticised for a wide number of reasons, one of such reasons is that the public report 90% of crimes. The problem here is where some crimes will go undetected if the public decide not to report them; there are many possible reasons why a member of the public may not report a crime. Some of these reasons are, people may not report crimes if they feel they are too trivial and the police may therefore define them as petty, victims may be too embarrassed to...

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