Mostly by the \"dark figure\" of crime is understood between the number of crimes actually committed to a number of offenses for which the information reached law enforcement authorities. However, more correctly, because of the way the record numbered, would talk about the ratio of the number of offenses for which the information reached the authorities prosecute the number of crimes actually committed. Already in the thirties of the twentieth century, investigations on this subject and found then that in the case of crimes committed by professional criminals \"dark figure\" of crime is 1:100, while the average is 1:300. It should be emphasized that the phenomenon of \"dark figures\" of crime also applies to those offenses that seem difficult to unnoticed, although the differences between disclosed and undisclosed crime here are much smaller. Generally it can be observed that the amount of \"dark figures\" of crime is dependent upon the nature of these crimes.
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