It is a liberal questioning of criminal statistics collected and collated by the police themselves.

Gilroy (1987) has taken issue with the common reading of criminal statistics and black people.

When it comes to drugs related crimes, Vietnamese are leading nationwide criminal statistics.

The official criminal statistics present a picture of crime as being predominantly a working-class phenomenon.

To answer these questions people invariably turn to the official criminal statistics which are collected and published by the Home Office.

So, while criminal statistics have risen substantially, theft and violence is clearly not a modern problem.

Thus higher proportions of juveniles are figuring in the criminal statistics.

Secondly, and linked with this point, criminal statistics reflect the intensity of law enforcement itself.

On this point, a central problem with criminal statistics is that they only cover what is officially defined as crime at any one time.

So the more closely one looks at the criminal statistics the more complicated and problematic they become.