do you think that official statistics on crime are reliable?
Most of the statistical data on crime is recorded by police.On the other side, a large majority of cases remain unreported.A better data collection method is survey of victims in case of certain crimes such as robbery.Many cases of rape either are underreported or rarely reported due to the sensitivity of problems and primary concerns.The overall statistics may be an old data and not been reviewed after primary source data collection.
Another challenge faced is the data on crime collected is compared between countries based on individual rates and not by the size of the country in terms of it's population.Majority of the countries selected in this regard is highly populated ones and the least populated countries may not be included.Eventhough there are ennumerable statistics available on crime these days, reliability of these data is questionable without extensive research.
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