Vollaard, Ben; Hamed, Joseph - In: Journal of Law and Economics 55 (2012) 4, pp. 901-901
We present evidence that the use of police statistics as a source of crime data can seriously bias empirical tests of the model of deterrence. We use data for 21 areas in England and Wales in 2001–8. In addition to police-recorded crime data, we use victim-reported crime data from the British...