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How useful are victim surveys for uncovering the 'dark figure of crime'?
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How useful are victim surveys for uncovering the 'dark figure of crime'? To determine the extent of crime and the most common forms of criminal offence, the official crime statistic are looked at. Since such statistics are published regularly, there would seem to be no difficulty in assessing crime rates- but this assumption can be seen as quite erroneous. Statistics about crime and delinquency are probably the least reliable of all officially published figures on social issues. Many criminologists have emphasised that we cannot take official statistics at face value, they state that they do not record all reported crime. The British crime survey, which is a victim survey, showed that slightly over half of all crimes reported to the police in England and Wales were recorded. This essay shall focus on how useful victimization studies are in uncovering the dark figure of crime, dark figure referring to offences not captured...
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