Crime in India, the annual report of India's National Crime Records Bureau, is an official government statistical series, cited here without a single edition year since it is an ongoing annual publication rather than one dated volume. Its strength is that it is the principal official measure of witchcraft related killings in India, recording murders under a dedicated witchcraft motive category drawn from police case records nationwide. Its limit is the ordinary one for any crime statistic built on police reporting: it counts what was reported and classified that way, which is likely to undercount cases that went unreported or were recorded under a different motive.
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Reliability tier 1: an official government statistical series compiled from nationwide police case records, the principal record of its kind, subject to the ordinary undercounting risk of any crime statistic built on reporting. NotesThe national crime statistics record murders under a witchcraft motive category, which is the principal official measure of the practice in India.
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AuthorNational Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India
PublisherGovernment of India
Source TypeGovernment report
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