Police-recorded crime
Definition
Criminal incidents formally logged by police following a report or officer discovery, counted according to nationally defined rules and submitted to a central statistical agency. The primary component of official crime statistics in most countries.
Related terms
- Attrition
- The progressive loss of cases as they move through the criminal justice system: from crime committed, to reported, to recorded, to prosecuted,...
- Counting rules
- Administrative instructions that specify how agencies should convert incidents into statistical records: how to count multiple victims of one incident, how to...
- Notifiable offences
- In England and Wales, the category of offences that must be formally reported to the Home Office and included in national crime...
- Reporting rate
- The proportion of crimes experienced by victims that are brought to the attention of police. Reporting rates vary substantially by offence type,...
- Secondary victimisation
- Additional harm caused to a victim through the process of reporting and investigation, such as disbelief, insensitive questioning, or retraumatisation. Fear of...
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- Official Crime StatisticsCriminal incidents formally logged by police following a report or officer discovery, counted according to nationally defined rules and submitted to a central...