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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'dark figure' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions dark figure noun  The estimated number of unreported criminal cases; the dark figure of crime. 1977: US Congressional House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Suspension of the National Crime Survey, page 15 :In exploring the of crime, the primary question is not how much of it becomes revealed but rather what will be the selective properties of any particular innovation for its illumination. 1992: Hisao Katoh, Louise I. Shelley, Hisao KatÅ�, Hans-Gí¼nther Heiland, Crime and Control in Comparative Perspectives, page 49, Walter de Gruyter :The concerning these criminal offences, is very high and the attitude towards reporting such cases is not constant. 2000: Piers Beirne, James W. Messerschmidt, Criminology :By definition, they ignore the unreported "" of crime. We turn now to a second source of official crime data. Translations:  German: Dunkelziffer (trans-mid) (trans-bottom)        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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