'Violent assaults hit million mark' (Times 21 July 2005).

To review these 'remarks' printed in the papers and to consider taking media and statistical representations of crime at face value, it may be wise to start by examining the definition of crime and building up a picture to be able to contemplate the processes associated with how crimes are reported and recorded and to whom. The structures in place for understanding statistics and the problems related in correlating these administrative methods. One of the …

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