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KEY THEORIST - MAGUIRE (2002): CRIME STATISTICS

What did they find?

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  • Only around 3% of all crime in England and Wales ends with a conviction. As such we don’t have reliable evidence about who is committing offences and therefore our image of offenders is heavily bias and misinformed.