Abstract
Abstract This concluding chapter discusses the moral motives and ideals underlying hidden crime research. It first considers the policy struggle triggered by the self-report delinquency survey as a modern method of discovering hidden crime, with particular emphasis on issues relating to humane criminal policy and sociology. It then turns to the internal logic of the discovery of hidden crime, along with the social preconditions that had to be met before the crime survey concept could proliferate. It also examines the change in how social regulation functions and the shift in focus from the abnormality of crime to flexible normalisation. Finally, the chapter explores the hidden crime survey in relation to populism and whether self-report surveys can increase crime, citing three research programmes that imply a causal link between high prevalence announcement and offending behaviour: neutralisation theory, pluralistic ignorance, and basic social influence.
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