Legal Encyclopedia. Letter L

latent crime

- Feature of crime, which indicators do not fully reflect the real state of things.

The LP 2 sides - a real and latching. Not considered part of the crime - latent crime. LP - this is a crime, not reflected in the criminal justice statistics. The LP emit 2 parts:

1) a hidden crime. The crimes remain unknown to law enforcement authorities or identified due to the specifics of the crimes themselves, or lack of activity Control and Audit Services. Sometimes referred to as the natural latency;
2) concealed crime. The crimes became known to law enforcement authorities, but are hidden by the account by officials for various reasons.

You can select group 3 when the offense is not recognized due to registration errors.

There are crimes with high, medium and low-latency. The actual level of latency is determined by the number of unreported crimes. methods

objectification of crime data:

1) survey of the alleged victims;

2) study the materials forensic bureau and their comparison with the data of law enforcement bodies;

3) analysis of complaints and petitions received by the law enforcement agencies;

4) economic analysis;

5) survey;

6) expert evaluations;

7) the consequences of crime.