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Proposals To Improve the System of Crime Statistics of the Police and the Prosecution Service

NCJ Number
156701
Journal
Belugyi Szemle Volume: 33 Issue: 2 Dated: (February 1995) Pages: 22-38
Author(s)
G Lorinczy
Date Published
1995
Length
17 pages
Annotation
A deputy attorney general of a county in Hungary who works with both the input and the output of the current system of providing crime statistics for the police and prosecutors and concludes that change is needed in the information system and the methods of data entry.
Abstract
Entering data into the current system has taken tens of thousands of work hours. Although the system's goal should be assisting the work of criminal investigation departments, informatics has become the goal instead. Therefore, changes are needed. Footnotes and form (Publisher abstract modified)