The Emperor's New Clothes: the National Crime Recording Standard, a tailor‐made solution to police crime statistics?

Abstract

The unreliability of statistics of crime recorded by the police has been the subject of much comment over the years. The new National Crime Recording Standard represents an attempt to overcome recording variation, provide a ‘victim focus’ and allow comparisons in forces' performance. A consequence has been a significant increase in bureaucracy and audit systems that may have only a modest effect on the reliability of the statistics.

Citation

Hallam, S. (2003), "The Emperor's New Clothes: the National Crime Recording Standard, a tailor‐made solution to police crime statistics?", Safer Communities, Vol. 2 No. 4, pp. 38-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/17578043200300050