When attempting to understand, predict, and control any social problem, including the crime problem, the first step is to determine its extent. Explain what this means and how it is carried out.

What will be an ideal response?


Gauging the extent of the problem means discovering how much of it there is, where and when it occurs most often, and among what social categories it occurs most frequently. It also helps our endeavors if we have knowledge of the patterns and trends of the problem over time. However, all social statistics are suspect to some extent, and crime statistics are perhaps the most suspect of all. They have been collected from many different sources in many different ways and have passed through many sieves of judgment before being recorded.

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