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45 Harv. L. Rev. 307 (1931-1932)
Crimes Known to the Police--An Index of Crime

handle is hein.journals/hlr45 and id is 365 raw text is: CRIMES KNOWN TO THE POLICE CRIMES KNOWN TO THE POLICE- AN INDEX OF CRIME? F OR years it has been customary for popular and scientific writers on crime to lament both the inadequacy of criminal statistics in the United States 1 and the surprising difference which such statistics as existed showed between the amount of crime in the United States and in England and Canada.' The statistics of prisoners in American penal institutions col- lected by the Bureau of the Census ' are fully the equal of the best prison statistics to be found in foreign countries, but other branches of criminal statistics in this country are far inferior to their English and European counterparts. While in England, in the principal British colonies, and in many continental countries the appropriate bureau of the central government collects and publishes annually in a single volume statistics of persons arrested and prosecuted before the courts as well as of crimes known to the police, no similar statistics exist for the United States. Crimi- nal court statistics are collected and printed in the United States for the trial courts of general jurisdiction of more than half the states and for the municipal courts of many of the most important 1 Moley, The Collection of Criminal Statistics in the United States (1928) 26 McIr. L. REV. 747; ROBINSON, HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION OF CRMINAL STATIcSICS IN THE UNITED STATES (1gX). Many other good articles are to be found in the JoURNA. oF CRuNAL. LAW, particularly vol. I, at 417; vol. 2, at 568; id., at 877; vol. 4, at 175; vol. 8, at 16; vol. 12, at 514; id., at 518. 2 Mead, Police Statistics (1929) 146 THE: ANNALS 74-95; Ellis, The Story of Our National Dishonor (July 20, 1929) LITERARY DIGEST 22; Fosdick, in CRa nAL. JUSTIcE IN CLEvEAND (1922) pt. I, c. 1; KAVANAGHI, THE CRimINmAL AND HIs AIEaS (1928) c. I; Abbott, Recent Statistics Relating to Crime in Chicago (1922) 13 J. CRiu. L. 329; Goebel, Jr., The Prevalence of Crime in the United States and its Extent Compared with that in the Leading European States (1913) 3 J. CaMr. L. 754. 3 PRISONERS: 1923 (1926) and TBE PRIsO ER'S ANTECEDENTS (1929) are the two volumes tabulating the wealth of statistical information collected in the last decennial census, that of 1923, of prisoners in city, county, state and federal penal institutions. An annual census on a more modest scale is made of prisoners in state and federal prisons and reformatories. The latest volume is entitled PIsoNERs In STATE AND FEDERAL PRISONS AND REFORmATORIES: 1927 (1931).

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