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Challenges inherent to the task of estimating the costs of Crime

Identify and explain the challenges inherent to the task of estimating the costs of crime How do you feel that the costs of crime could best be measured One of the most significantly challenging tasks to estimating the costs of crime is the lack of uniformity between data sources An overall goal is to collect the most recent and reliable date on victims criminal activity and perpetrators as well as using the Criminal Justice Systems CJS available resources Data for criminal activity is relatively easy to get your hands on but if you are looking for information on losses you may have difficulty due to possibly having to piece together available information from different sources Essentially researching data for what is accessible and of good value in all areas has a big influence on the precise estimates of the costs of crime One limitation to a study may be that the data used was strictly from the United States and therefore the costs of crime estimates may not be fit to other countries Another limitation is how difficult it is to calculate the definite number of offenses for crimes 



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