Sentence examples for measures of crime from inspiring English sources

The current meta-analysis examines the link between self-control and measures of crime and deviance, taking stock of the empirical status of self-control theory and focusing on work published between 2000 and 2010.

To back off now, Police Commissioner Howard Safir said in an interview, would be to repudiate the central tenets of the city's policing strategy, a strategy that has coincided with steep declines in all measures of crime.

The latest figures for the 12 months to September show surprise falls on both measures of crime, with the crime survey of England and Wales down 8% and police recorded crime figures showing a 7% drop.

He said it was positive that both major measures of crime continued to fall and that the gap between the survey and the police figures had continued to narrow.

There is no evidence of a broader crime wave; in fact, measures of crime apart from homicides, including rapes, robberies, burglaries and auto thefts, have actually improved by about 10 percent since a year ago.

Analysis of data collected from participants in their everyday activity spaces a) show strong internal consistency among multiple measures of crime fear; b) indicate that perceptual measures of social cohesion are significant predictors of victimisation worry; and c) support most hypothesised associations between concepts contained in contemporary models of crime fear.

The crime rate measures the amount of crime people are suffering from, he said, while the prison count is a measure of how severely society chooses to deal with crime, which varies from time to time.

The Home Office said the BCS was the most reliable and robust measure of crime in England and Wales.

The survey is based on interviews with 40,000 members of the public about their experience of crime and is a measure of crime against adults and households.

The National Crime Victimization Survey, a detailed annual survey of more than 40,000 Americans by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, is considered the most reliable measure of crime because it includes offenses not reported to the police.

"So far we have seen that crimes measured by the survey – the best measure of crime as it reflects the public's experience of crime – has fallen since 2010, but we have also seen a rise in police recorded crime over the past few years," she said.