Crime Survey Vs Statistics

Crime surveys and statistics are important because without it the government would have no information about unreported crimes. Surveys and statistics also recognise those most at risk of several types of crime. Also, it is used to collect data for crime prevention. It is a major source of information about levels of crime, public views to crime. The reality is that how diverse it is that the public is unware of the difficulty that in fact it is impossible to measure or count the actual evidence or incident of crime. Hence the same public has a little idea of the significant dissimilarity between the official crime statistic and the actual crime figure. This essay discuses about “why are Surveys a better measurement of crime than the official …show more content…
Questions are expanded so that it is easier for a person to understand and write in depth. Victims surveys reveals significant amounts of unrecorded events, which also shows the estimate amount of unrecorded crimes. Also, it contains any psychological harm and other concerns, and physical damage and other harms caused by harassment. It measures repeat, serial, and multiple victimisation, victim careers, increase of victimisation risks, vulnerable population groups. Compare survey findings with police data. Victimisation surveys allow for an insight into how crime are recorded and selected from all possible events that share certain features, including the reporting behaviour of the population. Questions on reporting/not reporting crimes to the police and experiences related to reporting are asked. It gives voice to the victims of crime and the need of support. This approach determines that there is a large volume of events or experiences that may be crimes and opens the possibility of reviewing the relative importance of given types of crime-related events, those that are typically not recorded in other standard sources. On the other hand, police reports are also difficult as a measure of crime. First, they don’t measure crimes that are not reported. Second, arrest records are not measured of crime, they are measures of arrest as not all arrests are correct. Conviction records are measures of convictions. Not only do some innocent people get arrested, some guilty people do not get convicted. And the crime they are imprisoned to, it may not be the crime they committed. Police statistics only measure reported crimes. There are countless numbers of crimes which are never reported to the police every year so they are not counted in crime