Chapter 4 Essay questions

  1. What are the principal challenges for governments and justice organisations in measuring and monitoring changing patterns of crime? How could these be overcome using existing and new methods of data collection?
  2. To what extent, if any, do the risks of justice organisations developing predictive models of crime or offending outweigh the benefits?
  3. What are the risks to criminology as a discipline of failing to engage with the ‘big data’ revolution and how can we prevent them?
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