CRIM1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Victimless Crime, Victimology, Victimisation
20 Jul 2018
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Sources of information about crime and their reliability. Crime are poor guide to trends in crime as long as proportion of offences is relatively stable or comparable across locations. Public opinion on what constitutes a crime: people vary considerably in their views about what constitutes a crime 2002 abs national. Crime victim survey (abs 2003), 69% of those who said they had been assaulted in the previous. 12 months did not report assault to police only 57% considered incide(cid:374)t to ha(cid:448)e (cid:271)ee(cid:374) (cid:858)(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:373)e(cid:859: changes in public opinion about what counts as a crime will inevitably influence number of crimes that are reported to police. Police crime recording practises: changes in way crime is recorded can also have significant effect on trends in recorded crime. In 1988, the nsw summary offences act came into effect 293 per cent increase in reports of offensive behaviour in the six-month period immediately following the introduction of the act (bonney, 1989)
