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Analysing Police-Recorded Data1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2016

Allan Brimicombe
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Abstract

The quarterly bulletins on crime statistics in England and Wales are compiled from two sets of data: crime survey and police-recorded crime. Whilst the former is considered to give the most reliable trends, the latter has a greater level detail for a fuller spectrum of crimes types. This paper by Allan Brimicombe, explores the advantages and problems of analysing police-recorded data for the insights they contain. This is illustrated by examples from an analysis of domestic violence.

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domestic violencepolice-recorded crimecrime statisticsdata analysis

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Sources and Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research
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Legal Information Management , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 71 - 77
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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