From BBC Radio 4’s statistics programme
More Or Less presented by Tim Harford
Episode dated 9th September 2011
“The Justice Secretary Ken Clark wrote in The Guardian that almost three quarters of people charged with offences from the recent riots have previous convictions. Does that mean most of the rioters had previous convictions – as Ken Clarke seems to be suggesting – or were the police simply more likely to catch and charge looters who were already known to them because they had previous convictions?”
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