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dark figure of crime: a standalone construct

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dark figureof crime1 CONSTRUCTDark figureBIDERMAN & REISS · 1967

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Criminology

The crime missing from official counts

The dark figure of crime is the amount of crime that happens but never shows up in official statistics, because it is not reported to police or not recorded by them. Biderman and Reiss's 1967 On exploring the 'dark figure' of crime set out how victim surveys and other methods could estimate this hidden volume and expose the gap between official counts and actual offending. The construct names the unrecorded remainder that makes police data an incomplete measure of crime, and it is the reason victimization surveys exist.[1]

Unit
The volume of actual crime that is missing from official records
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Estimated by comparing victimization-survey or self-report counts with police-recorded crime

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References

  1. Biderman, A. D., & Reiss, A. J. (1967). On exploring the 'dark figure' of crime. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 374(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1177/000271626737400102

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