How Countries Count Crime: An Exercise in Police Discretion Eterno John A.
How Countries Count Crime: An Exercise in Police Discretion Eterno John A. This edited collection illuminates the weaknesses and strengths of crime reporting across a wide range of countries, with a…
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How Countries Count Crime: An Exercise in Police Discretion Eterno John A.
This edited collection illuminates the weaknesses and strengths of crime reporting across a wide range of countries, with a focus on democratic countries in which the police bear some accountability to citizens. With chapters written by native authors who are experts on the practices of their respective countries, the book explores practices in 15 different countries across the globe.Organized with a parallel, country-by-country approach, the book describes and analyzes methods police use to record crimes, with the awareness that the counting of crimes is not only an issue of empirical measurement, but also one of social construction. In one compendium, for the first time, this book documents how different countries record (or fail to record) crimes.
In some cases, reports are not taken, and in others, reports are carefully Crime reporting practices vary widely by country.