Criminal Law Case Study 2022

Running head: CRIMINAL LAW
CRIMINAL LAW
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Benefits of Using Statistical Data in Criminal Justice
For the effective implementation of the anti-crime programs, the protection of the well
being of the citizen and for the assessment of the social impact on the public policies and
expenditures using statistics and statistical analysis on the criminal justice is seen to be critical
for the government. The comprehensive and reliable collection of statistics of the criminal justice
is not possible to be understated in an ever increasing interconnected and globalized world
especially in this age of cybercrimes. Extensive researches are undertaken by the government by
using qualitative and quantitative techniques for generating huge amount of data relating to
crime, criminal profiles, socio-economic, political and geographical profile of both different
communities and the country as a whole which is then collected for sustaining the criminal
justice system. At the time of research for transforming all the data that had been collected into
information useful for the effective decision-making in criminal justice as well as in policy
research statistical analysis is required.
The study of statistics can be described as involving extensive use of numbers and
information for describing any situation or for deriving any logical inference or conclusion by
way of analysis of numerical and non-numerical figures and facts. In a broader way Statistics can
be referred to as a range of procedures and techniques for the analysis, interpretation, display and
decision-making on the basis of data (Dammer & Albanese, 2013). .
In the criminal justice system the statistical data are collected for answering questions
related to the crimes and often times the data are seen to be collected at the time of the
investigation process of the crime. For showing the probabilities of various crimes that occur in