Open AccessTIME TO TAKE ACTION: The 2006/07 crime statistics
Author(s) -
Johan Burger
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
sa crime quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-3108
pISSN - 1991-3877
DOI - 10.17159/2413-3108/2007/v0i21a969
Subject(s) - seriousness , crime statistics , action (physics) , criminology , violent crime , political science , psychology , law , physics , quantum mechanics
With increases of 2.4% and 4.6% respectively in the murder and aggravated robbery rates, the police’s release of the 2006/07 crime statistics confirmed the fears of many that violent crime is on the increase. During the media conference the police communicated the bad news badly in an obvious attempt to downplay the seriousness of a situation over which they, according to their own admission, actually have very little control. In a bizarre way this confirms that whatever we are doing to fight crime isn’t working and that it is time to consider something completely different.