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Page 57
... serious offenses , offenses whose victims have brought complaints , and offenses some of whose victims are dead - those crimes , in short , for which the public put pressure on their police to make arrests . A recent survey of research ...
... serious offenses , offenses whose victims have brought complaints , and offenses some of whose victims are dead - those crimes , in short , for which the public put pressure on their police to make arrests . A recent survey of research ...
Page 64
... offenses observed and official response . It is apparent that boys who commit the more serious crimes , and more of them , run a higher risk of appearing in official statistics . What is not revealed in the chart , but appears in ...
... offenses observed and official response . It is apparent that boys who commit the more serious crimes , and more of them , run a higher risk of appearing in official statistics . What is not revealed in the chart , but appears in ...
Page 87
... serious offenses also score high on the more trivial offenses . Scaling a self - report index is rather like as- suring that " tall people are taller than short people . " On the other hand , an unscaled index might reveal that " some ...
... serious offenses also score high on the more trivial offenses . Scaling a self - report index is rather like as- suring that " tall people are taller than short people . " On the other hand , an unscaled index might reveal that " some ...
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The Meaning of Crime | 13 |
Counting CrimeOfficially | 43 |
Counting CrimeUnofficially | 62 |
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