Questions about the Counting Crime poster

What’s on the Counting Crime poster?

Police recorded crime against Victimisation surveys, side by side. Police recorded crime: Counts what is reported and then recorded; Police recorded crime: Sensitive to recording rules and practice; Police recorded crime: Covers offences with no obvious victim; Police recorded crime: A rise can reflect better recording; Police recorded crime: The main source for homicide and rare crime; Victimisation surveys: Asks a population sample about experience; Victimisation surveys: Captures crime never reported to police; Victimisation surveys: Stable method, so trends are comparable; Victimisation surveys: Misses homicide; fraud is hard to capture; Victimisation surveys: Excludes people outside the sampling frame; Neither source is the crime rate. Read both, and ask what each one is structurally un…. Educational reference. Surveys such as the CSEW and NCVS give estimates with confidence intervals, not counts.

Who is the Counting Crime poster for?

Counting Crime belongs to the Criminal Justice section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning criminological theory can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Counting Crime poster?

Read before quoting any crime rate — the source decides what the number means. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Counting Crime belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Counting Crime?

The Dark Figure, The Classical School and Control Theories sit alongside Counting Crime in the Criminal Justice section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The Dark FigureThe Classical SchoolControl Theories

Is the Counting Crime poster free to download and print?

Yes. Counting Crime downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Criminal Justice section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Counting Crime poster print at?

Counting Crime is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Counting Crime loses nothing.Printing guide