| The Crime Rate of any country is an official statistic | | | | economy. |
| that reflects certain particular defining points for a | | | | Usually, the collection and collation of data to build |
| country. The nature and the general motives behind | | | | crime databases follow some particular assortment |
| the crime is usually immaterial, and statisticians rarely | | | | procedures. When done within domestic boundaries, |
| concern themselves with value-oriented appraisal of | | | | like the FBI (the Federal Bureau of Investigation) in |
| data. Instead, the crime rate of a country is usually | | | | America, which is directly under Homeland Security, |
| decided on the number of officially lodged cases of | | | | enforcement reports form only a part of it. |
| crime, collated over a period of usually a year. | | | | The computation is usually a demographic-tabulation |
| Qualitative judgments rarely influence the statistic in a | | | | exercise, where crimes committed within particular |
| country, and hence, a petty case of thievery would | | | | blocks, or districts or states are considered. These |
| effectively influence the statistic as much as a capital | | | | reports are then verified against known records of |
| crime. The thing to note about these statistics within | | | | criminal offences/ reported legal violations, records of |
| a particular time-frame is that the compilation process | | | | convicts and records/statements filed by victims. |
| is usually based on official criminal reports and | | | | Usually, the crime index for a particular year is the |
| investigations. Hence, crime statistics often tend to | | | | weighed-average of these three reports, and |
| overlook unofficial instances of criminal activities, and | | | | generally is reflective of the success of various police |
| unreported/unproven crimes. | | | | departments/enforcement agencies. |
| The Crime rate is often considered to be an | | | | Although the crime rate is generally reflective of the |
| extremely important index to judge the welfare and | | | | official enforcement status and law-and-order scene, |
| the quality/standard of living within a particular | | | | they have to be carefully verified for accuracy in |
| country. Usually, such records for a particular country | | | | some cases. There are numerous criminal cases like |
| are gathered, collated and published by global | | | | traffic violations, petty skirmishes and cases of |
| agencies like the Interpol and the U.N law-keeping | | | | bribery etc. which might be under-reported by the |
| corps. Such surveys can be unbiased reportage of | | | | local police authorities. Every instance of criminal |
| particularly prevalent crime trends within any country, | | | | activity could only be reported and included in the |
| thereby serving as a generalized index for law and | | | | crime rate statistic after the process of conviction, |
| order within a country. | | | | or some parallel solution has been reached, and the |
| However, the statistic alone is not a completely | | | | case is no longer sub-judice. |
| reflective tool that could be directly applied to | | | | Addition of these cases, many of which might take |
| ascertain the social conditions of every economy. | | | | years before they are resolved, to the crime |
| Typically, these 'statistics' don't really show the | | | | statistics of subsequent years may be a tad difficult. |
| amount of human-rights violation and subversion of | | | | Hence, the criminal activities index is most often an |
| human rights as perpetrated by the state. Hence, | | | | unbiased, but more often that not, a slightly |
| state-sponsored acts of terrorism, dictatorial violence | | | | exhausting and flawed system of reporting the |
| and instances of political violence often go | | | | law-and-order situation in any country. |
| unincorporated within the official crime-statistic of an | | | | |