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  HO291/29, press notice. By 1958, the Home Office, which publishes crime statistics, was trying to help newspaper reporters understand the figures by putting out Press Notices like this one.
 
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Why do you think these Press Notices were needed?

Does it show the government trying to "manipulate" the news?
 
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  Put some of the examples you have found in this Case-Study of a key factor for change affecting crime in the 20th century in your Gallery Worksheet.
 
  HO291/29, press notice
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