Crimes, Courts and Figures: An Introduction to Criminal StatisticsThis book is an introduction to UK and American criminal justice statistics for the non-statistician, covering both the sources of criminal justice data, and the challenges and difficulties of use and analysis. |
Contents
Unreported Offences | 15 |
Recorded Offences | 22 |
ClearedUp Offences | 29 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Crimes, Courts and Figures: An Introduction to Criminal Statistics Law and society Volume 278 of Penguin Education Penguin education : Law and society Penguin education: law, sociology and anthropology Recht und Gesellschaft Sociological jurisprudence [Series] |
| Author | Nigel Walker |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Penguin, 1971 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Jan 9, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0140802789, 9780140802788 |
| Length | 160 pages |
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