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Author Walker, Monica A

Title Crime / by Monica A. Walker
Edition 1st ed
Published Oxford ; New York : Published for the Royal Statistical Society and the Social Science Research Council by Pergamon Press, 1981

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 406 pages)
Series Reviews of United Kingdom statistical sources ; v. 15
Reviews of United Kingdom statistical sources ; v. 15.
Contents Front Cover; Crime; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; MEMBERSHIP OF THE JOINT STEERING COMMITTEE; INTRODUCTION; 26: CRIME; ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE TEXT; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 PUBLICATIONS; 1.3 SOURCES OF STATISTICS; 1.4 AREAL STATISTICS; 1.5 HISTORICAL CHANGES; 1.6 INTERPRETATION; CHAPTER 2. THE BASIS OF CRIMINAL STATISTICS; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 UNRECORDED CRIME; 2.3 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE IN ENGLAND AND WALES; 2.4 CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCES IN ENGLAND AND WALES; 2.5 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE IN NORTHERN IRELAND
2.6 CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCES IN NORTHERN IRELAND2.7 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE IN SCOTLAND; 2.8 CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCES IN SCOTLAND; 2.9 COMPARISONS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND WALES, AND SCOTLAND; CHAPTER 3. OFFENCES RECORDED BY THE POLICE; 3.1 PUBLISHED STATISTICS IN ENGLAND AND WALES; 3.2 SOURCE OF STATISTICS; 3.3 CLASSIFICATION RULES; 3.4 COUNTING RULES; 3.5 OFFENCES CLEARED-UP; 3.6 HISTORICAL NOTE; 3.7 PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION; 3.8 PUBLISHED STATISTICS IN NORTHERN IRELAND; 3.9 SOURCE OF STATISTICS; 3.10 HISTORICAL NOTE; 3.11 DIFFICULTIES OF INTERPRETATION; 3.12 PUBLISHED STATISTICS IN SCOTLAND
3.13 SOURCE OF STATISTICS3.14 PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION; 3.15 COMPARISONS WITH ENGLAND AND WALES; CHAPTER 4. CAUTIONS; 4.1 ENGLAND AND WALES; 4.2 PUBLISHED STATISTICS; 4.3 SOURCE OF STATISTICS; 4.4 HISTORICAL CHANGES; 4.5 DIFFICULTIES OF INTERPRETATION; 4.6 NORTHERN IRELAND; 4.7 SCOTLAND; CHAPTER 5. PROCEEDINGS IN THE COURTS; 5.1 REMANDS IN ENGLAND AND WALES; 5.2 ENGLAND AND WALES: MAGISTRATES' COURT TABLES; 5.3 CROWN COURT TABLES; 5.4 THE RESULTS OF PROCEEDINGS IN THE MAGISTRATES' COURTS; 5.5 THE RESULTS OF PROCEEDINGS IN THE CROWN COURT; 5.6 NON-CUSTODIAL SENTENCES; 5.7 CUSTODIAL SENTENCES
5.8 TABLES IN COMMENTARY TO CS5.9 SOURCE OF STATISTICS; 5.10 CHANGES IN LEGISLATION; 5.11 CHANGES IN PUBLICATIONS; 5.12 DIFFICULTIES OF INTERPRETATION; 5.13 COURT STATISTICS (NORTHERN IRELAND); 5.14 INDICTABLE OFFENCES; 5.15 NON-INDICTABLE OFFENCES; 5.16 JUVENILE OFFENDERS; 5.17 SOURCE OF STATISTICS; 5.18 HISTORICAL CHANGES; 5.19 COURT STATISTICS (SCOTLAND); 5.20 RESULTS OF PROCEEDINGS; 5.21 SOURCE OF STATISTICS; 5.22 HISTORICAL CHANGES; 5.23 DISCUSSION; 5.24 COMPARISON OF SCOTLAND WITH ENGLAND AND WALES; CHAPTER 6. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS; 6.1 FUNCTIONS; 6.2 PUBLISHED STATISTICS
6.3 SOURCE OF STATISTICS6.4 HISTORICAL NOTE; CHAPTER 7. APPEALS; 7.1 ENGLAND AND WALES: APPEALS TO THE CROWN COURT; 7.2 APPEALS TO THE COURT OF APPEAL (CRIMINAL DIVISION); 7.3 APPEALS TO HIGH COURT, QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION (DIVISIONAL COURT); 7.4 APPEALS TO HOUSE OF LORDS; 7.5 SOURCE OF STATISTICS; 7.6 HISTORICAL NOTE; 7.7 APPEALS IN NORTHERN IRELAND; 7.8 SCOTLAND: APPEALS IN SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS; 7.9 APPEALS IN SOLEMN PROCEEDINGS; CHAPTER 8. KNOWN OFFENDERS; 8.1 INTRODUCTION; 8.2 REGIONAL ANALYSIS; 8.3 SOCIAL FACTORS; 8.4 RECONVICTION STUDIES
Summary A work of reference to the sources of statistical material, both official and unofficial, on crime. It enables the user to discover what data are available, from where they may be obtained and what limitations there are to their use. A Quick Reference List of detailed information about statistical series is included and readers also have access to a computer held cumulative index for the entire series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284) and index
Notes English
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Subject Criminal statistics -- Great Britain
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain -- Statistical services
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Statistical services
Criminal statistics
Kriminalstatistik
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0080261043
9780080261041
9781483294711
1483294714