Details

Subject(s)

• Criminal statistics—Australia—Victoria [Browse]
• Crime—Australia—Victoria [Browse]
• Victoria Police—Statistics [Browse]

Related name

• Makkai, Toni [Browse]
• Australian Institute of Criminology [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Statistics [Browse]

Series

• Research and public policy series no. 45.. [More in this series]
• Research and public policy series, 1326-6004 ; no. 45. [More in this series]

Summary note

Official crime statistics are based on administrative data collected by police in the course of their work. However, the recording and counting of crime reflects both the public's willingness to come forward and report incidents of crime and the police's own administrative procedures and priorities. This monograph reports on the findings of a review of Victoria Police crime statistics. The review was requested by the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police to assess: the processes by which Victoria Police crime counting rules and classifications are applied to crime allegations; the data quality and monitoring mechanisms for crime statistics and clearing data; the methods and practices in relation to the recording and inclusion of crime data on Victoria Police's database; the reliability and veracity of the compilation of Victoria Police statistics; and the analytical programs and tools used to generate crime data. As well as assessing the above issues, the report makes recommendations to improve the recording of crimes and their conversion to published crime statistics.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-64).

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

ISBN

0642242836

LCCN

^^2003446061

OCLC

223380099

RCP

H - S

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