Falling crime rates?
Tom Jackson responds to last week's article about criminal justice
Alan Russell questions why (13 November), with falling crime levels, is the fear of crime so widespread? When considering crime statistics one is immediately confronted by two different methods used in establishing criminal activity: police records, the first method recording all crimes reported, and the British Crime Survey, representing the views and opinions on crime of a sample of the population, whether victims or not.
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