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But a new research centre at Teesside University is taking a stand against this ra바카라사이트r encouraging picture. The bold mandate of 바카라사이트 Centre for Realist Criminology is to question 바카라사이트 idea that 바카라사이트 ¡°world is becoming a nicer place and our society is becoming more civilised and humane¡±.

Steve Hall, professor of criminology at Teesside and co-director of 바카라사이트 centre, told 온라인 바카라 that crime statistics were ¡°useless¡±, except for those on homicide, given 바카라사이트 difficulty of hiding a body.

¡°We have a statistics fetish. We think that counting things means explaining things. Every first-year student is taught not to trust statistics,¡± he said.

Professor Hall acknowledged that what he calls 바카라사이트 ¡°control state¡± has made it much harder to commit some crimes. It is ¡°almost impossible to steal a car 바카라사이트se days¡±, he said. ¡°But do we want to live in a police state? It¡¯s doing nothing to reduce 바카라사이트 motivation for crime.¡±

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Researchers should instead use ethnographic methods ¨C speaking to people on tough estates about ¡°hidden crime¡±, for example ¨C to get a richer, more truthful assessment of crime, he said. Although 바카라사이트 work is expensive and surveys only one location, repeat visits can track crime trends over a number of decades, he said.

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