Use of Official Statistics and Crime Survey Data in determining Violence against Women
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چکیده
victimisation: official statistics or crime survey data. The benefits of one are set against the limitations of the other, but rarely are the two sources of data used to complement or enhance each other. This paper has as its main purpose the examination of violence against women, but in doing so both police and survey data have been used. The benefits and limitations of each source of data are illustrated in the paper with reference to the obtained results. The benefits of police data are sometimes forgotten by victimologists. This source of information represents the official response to crime. Police data include crimes against businesses as well as crimes against individuals. Children who have been victims as well as adults are included. In short, it is the total population of recorded offences. Offences are ordered in time so that the number of crimes reported in different months or days is easily established. The biggest limitation of police data is the perennial question what about those crimes which are not reported? In addition, because police data rely on administrative process and legislative factors, one is not able to make accurate comparisons between times or areas. A past limitation of police data has been that very little information about the victim of the offence was collected. Use of Official Statistics and Crime Survey Data in determining Violence against Women
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