Talk:British Crime Survey

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[edit] Removal of a section called "Factors affecting the reporting and recording of criminal statistics"

Pending rewrite and sourcing, I'm removing an entire section called "Factors affecting the reporting and recording of criminal statistics":

Factors affecting the reporting and recording of criminal statistics:

• The public reporting of crime as less than 10% of crime is directly observed or uncovered by the police. The British Crime Survey found that people do not report crime which they define as too petty.
• The police play a crucial role in deciding which complaints by the public should be categorised as crime and the acts that should be defined as legal. If the police decide a crime is not a crime or is to trivial to be considered a crime it goes uninvestigated.
• The Media - From a marxist point of view the media has an applifying nature through television reports.

This seems to be an expression of opinion, or perhaps multiple opinions. That is okay if we can incorporate it, sourced correctly, into a balanced, neutral treatment of the subject, but the above section isn't it. --Tony Sidaway 21:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of a section called "Criticism on BCS"

Pending rewrite and sourcing, I'm removing an entire section called "Criticism on BCS":

Criticism on BCS The most commonly addressed problem of BCS is Exclusion. It has been claimed that BCS undercounts certain types of crime especially fraud and corporate crime. The BCS seemed to give the impression that all individuals shared similar risks of being victims of crime. The BCS suggested that victims of crime were most likely to be male and young.

This needs to be sourced. --Tony Sidaway 21:16, 19 October 2006 (UTC)