Crime Statistics: In this essay I will be exploring the accuracy of statistics used to measure crime and discussing why these statistics maybe an inadequate indicator of criminal activities

Crime Statistics In this essay I will be exploring the accuracy of statistics used to measure crime and discussing why these statistics maybe an inadequate indicator of criminal activities. Moreover in this essay I will also use criminological theories and concepts. There are several different sociological/criminological explanations from a range of different perspectives used to explain crime and deviance. For the purpose of this essay I will be looking at the symbolic interactionists, labelling …

…crime statistics have their own agenda, be it to sway voters that they are doing more to combat crime than the opposition party or that the police force deserves better funding because they are doing such a good job. Either way there seems no real solution to combat the dark figure of unreported crimes or any way of every getting a set of crime statistics that actually represent the levels of crime that is occurring