The crime does not occur uniformly in time, space, type and number of committed offenses: in this review of indicators, summary measures are proposed for the necessity to know these adverse events in a statistical point of view, with the aim of promoting prevention. In addition to being varied, the phenomenon lacks visibility and concreteness because of the data incompleteness: quantifying just what appears, the crime rate is a trace of the crime, which is therefore necessary to give consistency to the statistical phenomenon, also in order to promote targeted enforcement actions. These statistical tools will be most effective if they refer to geographical areas restricted as much as possible, where the daily reality can lead to various, serious and frequent criminal manifestations: the perception of the crime level is critical to the quality of life, whereas a low appearing criminality may be due to under-reporting also for the mistrust that the legal system is able to effectively punish offenders and to protect victims.
I principali rapporti statistici per l’analisi giudiziaria nel tempo e nello spazio
CUSATELLI, CARLO;
2014-01-01
Abstract
The crime does not occur uniformly in time, space, type and number of committed offenses: in this review of indicators, summary measures are proposed for the necessity to know these adverse events in a statistical point of view, with the aim of promoting prevention. In addition to being varied, the phenomenon lacks visibility and concreteness because of the data incompleteness: quantifying just what appears, the crime rate is a trace of the crime, which is therefore necessary to give consistency to the statistical phenomenon, also in order to promote targeted enforcement actions. These statistical tools will be most effective if they refer to geographical areas restricted as much as possible, where the daily reality can lead to various, serious and frequent criminal manifestations: the perception of the crime level is critical to the quality of life, whereas a low appearing criminality may be due to under-reporting also for the mistrust that the legal system is able to effectively punish offenders and to protect victims.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
