Why does the Home Office estimate crime to be costing society in England and Wales £60 billion a year, yet your figure is only 25% of this amount? I would not have thought it was in the HO interests to inflate this figure.
http://sinclairsmusings.blogspot.com Matthew Sinclair
We discuss some of the ways that we’ve erred on the side of caution in our report. It’s the difference between recorded crime and estimated total crime and some crimes where the cost can’t be geographically isolated (such as fraud).
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