Police will record once they are satisfied the matter constitutes a crime. Many categories of criminal cases can be registered (Department of Sociology 2011). People have claimed that this method provides a more accurate picture of crime to society than other methods since the statistics are collected directly from police reports. Furthermore, the result expressed in numerical terms is therefore considered more objective. There are arguments that some people object to the statistical methods used to measure the incidence of crime. Crimes recorded by the police are not a valid measure since many crimes are not observed by the police in time. It is therefore considered ineffective. Most crimes are manipulated, poorly recorded or sometimes not even reported to the police. Thus, the number of crimes committed is considerably