ABSTRACT
Problems of priority — Support for social action and research — The initial stimulus — First steps in problem-solving — First questions — An example of initial questions and some answers — How large is the problem ? — Problems of general statistics — Process analysis: an example — Crime and morals, and other semiattached concepts — Two measures are better than one — Assessment of statistical data — Relevance of mass statistical data — Classification and categorization — A classification of types of crime — Crime and indictable offences — An approach to a crime index: (a) time factors; (b) spatial factors — Static and dynamic indices — Selection of fields
