Problems obtaining statistics is that the reliability of official statistics can be questioned, as although positivists claim that they are used for correlation analysis, the anti-positivists dismiss this as they say other factors that have occurred over time and culture change have caused crime figures to be irrelative to each other. An example would be that vast changes in moral values in society now means that homosexuality and abortion have now both become legal and accepted in today's world. Attitudes and interpretations of the law by the judiciary have changed over the years, such as rape being almost seen as an 8th sin, criminals found guilty of this crime will receive much harsher punishments, and from this rape within marriage is no longer acceptable as it was not so long ago. From these changes in the law and in general attitudes of the public, more crimes are being reported because a limited amount of crime is necessary and beneficial to society and that society could not exist without some form of deviance and it marks the boundaries of society. Haralambos and Holborn [2000] the most fundamental limitation of official crime statistics is that they only include crimes actually recorded by the police and many crimes go unrecorded or unreported. Theft of a vehicle has a high incidence of this crime being reported and recorded because in order for a claim for insurance to be processed it has to be reported to and recorded by the police. The same applies to a burglary with loss whereas often victims of vandalism or assault will not report the crime either because of a mistrust of the police or being sacred they may be attacked again