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GCSE Citizenship Studies · key term
Offences reported to or detected by the police and entered into their crime records.
Used by AQA and Edexcel
Paper 2
Revise: The Nature of Criminality in the UK TodayPolice recorded crime counts offences reported to or detected by the police and recorded by them. It covers a wide range of offences and victims, including businesses. It is particularly useful for offences such as homicide and weapon-related crime.
Paper 1, Paper 2
Offences that come to the attention of the police and are formally entered into their crime records.
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Two important sources of information in England and Wales are police recorded crime and the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW). They measure crime differently, so their totals cannot simply be treated as interchangeable.
