CRIME IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: STATISTICAL TRENDS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION. ESRI General Research Series Paper No. 102, November 1980

Rottman, David B. (1980) CRIME IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: STATISTICAL TRENDS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION. ESRI General Research Series Paper No. 102, November 1980. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

There is widespread agreement that crime in Ireland has become both more frequent and more costly in the past two decades. Crime is today a recognised social problem, its magnitude a subject of public concern and the possibilities for its amelioration a matter of public debate. The statistics which the Garda Siochana compile and publish are the only available evidence on which such discussion can be based, lifting the annual Report on Crime from relative obscurity to a prominence it is not really designed to hold. In newspaper coverage and in the D~iil, the annual increases, or, more rarely, decreases in the number of indictable offences are taken as a score card of garda failure and success, of disorder and public order. However, despite the interest in the problem of crime and in the crime statistics, there have been few research studies of the issues involved.

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