Write a commentary on crime trends in Scotland over the past five years, using information from the latest Recorded Crime in Scotland and the Scottish Crime Survey 2000.
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DEGREE OF B.A. LEGAL STUDIES 3 Coursework 1 "Scotland may be a particularly interesting example of the study of crime trends.... Because of the large fund of data provided by regular crime surveys starting in 1982, in combination with the statistics of recorded crime." [Smith, D.J. and Young, P. (1999) in Criminal Justice in Scotland, p 28] Write a commentary on crime trends in Scotland over the past five years, using information from the latest Recorded Crime in Scotland and the Scottish Crime Survey 2000. CRIME- A word that strikes fear into most of our hearts, each year five million crimes are recorded, that is around one for every ten of us, but truthfully that number could be as much as four times higher. There is a mass public fear of crime that pushes us to lock up our children and turn our homes into modern day fortresses, the question that arises from this...


