Measuring by 'damage to victims' will improve policing and public safety

Monday, April 4, 2016 - 01:10 in Health & Medicine

A "menu of harm" that measures crime according to the price of damage inflicted on victims - rather than counting crimes as if they are all of equal seriousness - needs to be adopted worldwide to focus police resources on the worst criminal acts, say leading University of Cambridge criminologists.

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