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What is the importance of statistics in criminology?

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1.statistics helps criminologist analyze the relationship between different social variables e.g poverty and crime ,age and crime,educational level and crime.

2. statistical tools e.g questionnaire helps researchers in the filed of criminology in the collection of data.

3. statistics helps researchers in the field of criminology present data in a more organized manner by use of charts ,bar-graphs etc

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