The Formidable Challenge of Measuring Crime | SpringerLink

The Formidable Challenge of Measuring Crime | SpringerLink: 1976: "The state of statistics and information on the nature of crime and the administration of justice in Canada is simply deplorable. There is a clear agreement on this situation even by those charged with the collection and dissemination of data…. The public, legislators, administrators and judges are largely at the mercy of hunches in assessing the total picture of crime, and are forced to rely on their personal or work experience…. Even where data are available they are not published in a form or with sufficient speed to check assumptions, mitigate exaggerations, or even more important, indicate pressure points and identify reasons for crises."