Mapping common crime

Jason L. Payne; Fiona Hutton

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55747-2_8

Mapping common crime

Jason L. Payne^*, Fiona Hutton

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Abstract

Official criminal justice statistics in Australia and New Zealand are produced by police, courts and corrective service agencies as an administrative account of their performance and annual service delivery achievements. Now more widely accessible than ever before, these official crime statistics often depict property, dishonesty and drug offences as among the most common crime types even though other sources indicate interpersonal violence as the most common. This chapter explores the issues related to the definition and categorisation of officially recorded common crime types, and explores, through a critical lens, the challenges of crime measurement and reporting for public consumption and policy development in both countries.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice
Publisher	Springer International Publishing Switzerland
Pages	113-129
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319557472
ISBN (Print)	9783319557465
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55747-2_8
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017

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