Crime Data Comparison

Criminal activity has risen tremendously over time. crime has taken a huge toll in todays society. There is so much hatred and bitterness towards the people of today’s time.

The unanticipated declines in rates of violent crimes in the United States caught many policymakers and researchers off guard. From 1991 to 1997, murder rates declined in five of the six years and robbery rates declined in all six years. Murder rates dropped by 30.6% and robbery by 31.8%. Rape rates fell by 15.1% and aggravated assault rates by 11.8%. This decline was one of the most substantial police and researchers had seen.”

Crime measurement and statistics for police departments are very important when it comes to money allotment, staffing needs or termination and it is also used to determine the effectiveness of new laws and programs. There are three tools used to measure major crime in the United States: Uniform Crime Reports, National Crime Victimization Survey and the National Incident Based Reporting System- which is currently being tested to replace the Uniform Crime Reports. Although there different tools used to measure crime, crime rates can be deceiving. Each different tool reports a different type of rate, crime rates, arrest

This essay is going to discuss the causes of crime and evaluate the theories of criminalisation using one theory for each of the following themes. The themes are labelling and deviant identity of criminalisation, theory of delinquency and criminalisation, theory of political economy and criminalisation, and finally radical theory of criminalisation. This essay will also show some of the weaknesses of each of the theories used for these themes.

According to the FBI Unified Crime Report for 2009, there were 385 murders in that year. The total population for Detroit in 2009 was just over 951,000. (The Neighborhood Scout, 2009) In Minneapolis, a city with about one-half the population of Detroit, the number of murders was 47. Not only is the population less than Detroit, the murder rate 6 times lower than Detroit. Here you can see that population seems to play a role in the amount of murders for these metropolitan areas. The area that had the most reported incidents of murder was Detroit. Minneapolis has shown that they have seen a 17% decrease in violent crimes over the past 3 years.

Crime is the product of the social structure; it is embedded in the very fibres of society. In this essay, I aim to explore different theories as to why crime exists within society and how we as a society therefore construct it. Crime is a social construct; it is always in society and is on the increase. It is inevitable. Where does it come from? It comes from legislation, from the making of laws.

The two metropolitan areas I have decided to do my research paper on are Cincinnati, Ohio and Dallas, Texas. I choose Cincinnati because it is one of the bigger cities where I live. I choose Dallas because there seems to be a big difference in crime rates compared to Cincinnati. In this paper I will be comparing the burglary rate between these two cities. I will identify the number of burglaries reported to the police in each area and also explain which area had more reported

Since the decade of the 1990s crime has increased in America, especially in state of California. In 1990s, violent crime plummeted fifty-one percent, property crime fell forty-three percent, homicides are down fifty-four percent compared to previous decade (Chettiar, 2015). Increased police in the 1990s brought down crime by about five percent, police employment increased dramatically in the 1990s, rising twenty-eight percent. One example of state policy that were put in place in the 1990s to address crime was the 1994 Crime Bill, which provided funding for 100,000 new local officers (Chettiar, 2015). Police techniques can be effective in reducing crime especially in the 1990s. Thanks to digital revolution in the 1990s, police forces started using computers to target criminals. But as of today, incarceration rate has increased with six percent of property crime decline in the 1990s and sadly only one percent of property crime

The "UCR Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics" (2010) website reports that the amount of forcible rape crimes reported in California has steadily decline in the past decade. The number of rapes reported in down by nearly 3,000 reports per year since 2002. The same can not be said about the state of Oregon; the number of forcible rapes reported in Oregon since 2002 has remained between 1,140 and 1,283 each year, for the last ten years. The reason behind the steady decline in forcible rape crimes reported in California could be due in part to increased incarceration, including longer sentences; improved law enforcement strategies and DNA technology ("Progress Watch", 2014). According to "Progress Watch" (2014), “technology has given detectives powerful new tools with which to analyze blood and Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) samples or other forensic evidence, for instance” (US crime rate at lowest point in decades. Why America is safer now); DNA technology has made great strides in the fight against sexual crimes. Because the forcible rape crime rate has relatively remained the same in Oregon, it is also possible to conclude that the number of victims reporting the crime in

Crime is something that occurs throughout the world. To some people it is an incident that adds stress to one’s life, and to others, they see it as a way of life. Over the last years, different areas of the United States have been affected by crime. The Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Report (UCR) Program is a nationwide program that gathers statistical information from nearly 18,000 agencies that report criminal data on crimes that have been brought to their attention or reported voluntarily (The Federal

been accompanied by increasing number of total crimes as well as all crimes per million households. Moreover, despite increase in domestic federal spending in 1987 dollars increased from 150 billion in 1960 to 720 billion in 1992, crime rate--crimes per 10,000 population--in the United States increased from 189 in 1960 to 566 in 1992. From about 1975, a sharp increase in incarceration from about 100 per 100,000 population around 1975 in the United States led to more than 400, a historically unprecedented level, by 1995.(Chennareddy 136).

Every day the economic crisis increasing and reducing the amount of work, while increasing delinquency grows. The economic crisis is affecting our lives and our economic, money, and also reducing our resources. According some information the financial crisis happened for the banks and increase in quotas. in other hand, It makes sense that poor economic conditions for instance, high unemployment rates, elevated poverty rates, laid off, Poverty, illiteracy etc. could act as a motivator to commit a crime. Such as burglary, larceny, violent crimes, murders, assault, were found to be consistently related to crime motivation and crime opportunity. To cause of economic crisis millions of person have lost their jobs large and small financial institutions have failed, so the government should increase job and to determine all of the precise causes of our economic

Firstly, recorded crime statistics are collated through the collection of data by law enforcement agencies, such as the police in England and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in America. It focuses on the crime that is reported by the public and then what is chosen to be recorded by the police. During the mid-late 19th century, these statistics formed the basis of information about crime, however, although they still provide raw data for publications such as the Offenders Index, they are now viewed critically. This is because, according to Mayhew and Hough (1988), the recorded crime statistics are “adequate as a measure of police workload, but because of unreported and unrecorded crime – deficient as an index of crime”.

Crime exists everywhere in the world – in rural and urban areas in many countries, in the East and West, and among all types of people. This has led many government officials, especially those in urban areas, to focus largely on the reduction of crime among their respective constituencies and has led others to speculate on the factors that influence the amount of crime and how those factors can be controlled. Crime has been around since man and there is no doubt that it will continue to be around, until there is an existence of a perfect world. But for now, we

Many factors generate crime. That ‘inner morality’ necessary to resist the temptation to rape, rob, or kill weakens in an environment of broken homes, systemic poverty, ethical relativism, religious decline. Poverty ’causes’ crime in general in the same way that pornography causes sex crimes and television violence causes violence by children: it is a predispositive condition. If the family life could be strengthened, raise the living standard, instill character values this could have an impact on lowering the crime rate.