The Science of Crime

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Via patternsofchaos, Australian crime not soaring: report.

But as An Onymous Lefty points out(*) the comments consist almost entirely of people saying "Well then the numbers are wrong!". Guh. (I didn't notice because I find it's better to pretend news articles don't have comments, they're so reliably rage inducing)

(*)found via Hoyden About Town

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Here is the

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Here is the <a href="http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/rpp/101/"</a> full report </a> if you want to read it.

It was a mail-out survey which has some inherent flaws.

To get the actual rates generally they combine self-report, victimisation surveys, hospitalisations etc - they never rely only on police statistics. At least, I would be very disappointed if they did because my lecturer wrote it and he's been repeating that over and over again all semester.