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Krohn MD, Thornberry TP, Gibson CL, Baldwin JM. J. Quant. Criminol. 2010; 26(4): 509-525. |
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(Copyright © 2010, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group) |
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IntroductionAfter introducing several types of offenses and offenders that typically fell out of the province of official police or court data on crime, Edwin Sutherland stated the following in his 1934 criminology text:The selective nature of arrest and of imprisonment make these statistics an inadequate source of information regarding the characteristics of criminals, but it is difficult to develop statistics regarding criminals who are not recorded in some manner. Apparently, therefore, the best that can be done at present is to recognize the bias in the statistics of arrests or of prisons and attempt to secure statistics in other ways regarding the classes which are not adequately represented. (1934: 39)He further recognized, however, that these "specialized statistical studies" were "still in a primitive stage, the units are not adequately defined and they are confined to the characteristics at a particular time and have little value in showing the process by which crime develops"... Language: en |