It does, however, show that, when data is available to draw a conclusion, concentration of crime among people, households and businesses is standard.
In the end, the conclusion of that crime and folly, as well as those of local actors, including the Assad regime, has been that Europe itself is less secure and stable, and the countries we supposedly liberated are a ghastly wasteland.
Patiently explaining it to a writer of detective ficiton over a late-night drink, Matthäi performs a devastating destruction of the tidy logic and wrapped-up conclusions of conventional crime writing.
Such conclusions created the impression that fear of crime was irrational – it was characterised as being the result of media moral panics rather than real fears based on actual experience.
And rather than a clear test case, Baltimore is a reminder of how complicated policing issues are and how hard it can be to draw solid conclusions from a month or two of crime and police response.
Consider: What conclusions does he draw about the causes of crime (if any)?
Isaac Bashevis Singer once recalled that as a boy in Warsaw he read a translation of "Crime and Punishment" and came to the conclusion that Dostoyevsky was a Yiddish writer.
The conclusion is that the duty enacted in 1999 to report suspicions of crime, like earlier attempts in this direction, was not a reaction to major frauds or scandals but a part of broader social-democratic policies during the period: to develop industrial democracy, to fight economic crime, and to improve economic markets.
This difference may hint at the possibly that the source of crime data could be a confounder in drawing conclusions from the concentration of crime studies.
In a decision that will shock those watching the conclusion of the first full US war crimes trial since the Nuremberg Trials, the military jury that yesterday convicted Salim Hamdan of providing "material support for terrorism" has sentenced him to serve five and a half years in prison.
