Crime Data Comparison Paper

The purpose of this abstract is to critically review the primary data sources used in the criminological research. The two key factors that measures crime are distinguished: official crime statistics, which are based on the compile data records of offenders and offenses processed by the police, courts, and corrections agencies; and unofficial crime statistics, which are produced by people and agencies outside the criminal justice system whom can add value to the data source (Regoli, Robert M., and Hewitt, John D., 2008, p 62). This abstract will discuss the strengths, weaknesses and differences of both data sources using arrests and self-reports to calculate the prevalence of crime in the United States.

This year’s shootings has climbed by twenty percent from 2013, there have been nearly one hundred homicides involving guns so far this year. This is an upsurge from sixty nine during the same period in both 2013 and 2014.In. In New York city officials have blamed the upsurge of homicides on deadly conflicts between career criminals and blamed gang activity in Brooklyn and the Bronx. On the other hand what’s been happening in Baltimore is different. The number of homicides has doubled while shootings has climbed more than eighty percent, and the vast majority of experts say that it is at partially connected to a averseness by police officers to aggressively do their jobs. (Sanburn, 2015)During the year of 2013 the population in New York, NY was 8,396,126 and they had 335 reported homicides, while Baltimore, MD had a population of 622,671 people and 233 reported. (Crime in te Unied States 2013,

Detroit tops Forbes list of the Most Dangerous Cities this year for the fifth year in a row. What is encouraging is the violent crime rate in the Motor City actually declined last year, despite crushing financial woes that drove Detroit into the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Crime affects the people of Detroit and the city’s reputation, employment, income and education. It should be stopped to make Detroit prosper and make the lives of the people living there better. Detroit had 316 murders in 2013, a rate of 45 per 100,000 people. That 's the highest rate among cities with populations over 100,000. In 2013 Detroit also reported 14,504 violent crimes. That 's also the highest per capita rate in the nation, according to the

Even though evidence proves otherwise, many people claim the large quantity of guns in the United States are culpable for the country’s murder rates. While the United States population and number of guns have steadily gone up since 1994, the rates of all different crime types have drastically gone down (Planty). Over the last nineteen years, almost fifty million guns have been added to the US, yet firearm violence has been reduced by more than two thirds (Federal Bureau). This completely contradicts the statement that more guns equal more violence. To compare the two, solely based on these statistics, it looks as though the upsurge of guns and armed citizens has only led to less violence. Another example, that disproves this, is the Firearm Act of 1997. After a school shooting, the United Kingdom passed this act banning almost all of their guns. That year, the UK had initially recorded seven hundred and thirty-four homicides. While only steadily increasing, by the year 2002, they had a recorded one thousand and forty-one homicides (Osborne). This act did not prevent homicides at all, and as a matter of fact it only created more violence. The District of Columbia is another case in point on how the lack of guns does not mean there is any lack of violence. DC has a 3.6% gun ownership ratio of the people living there, ranking it the lowest in the Unites States. At the same time, DC has the highest gun deaths and firearm robberies in the Unites States. The District has a

According to the UCR, from 2005 to 2012 Reno, Nevada had an increase in population of 25,737 people, yet between those dates Reno, Nevada showed a decrease of 283 burglaries. As for Sparks, Nevada, the UCR data showed an increase of the population of 8,596 people and just like Reno, Nevada, Sparks, Nevada, showed a decrease of 131 burglaries.

The cities in this countdown are based on the population size of each region and the number of crimes that take place. Each individual crime is tallied per thousand residents. Violent and property crimes including burglary, homicide, rape, armed robbery, assault, and vehicle theft are all accounted for in this study. Thanks to the Neighborhood Scouts and law enforcement for providing the information for the safest cities to live in the United States.

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

Chicago has always been known as a city full of crime and hate and more recently it has gotten even worse. In 2016, Chicago had 762 homicides this is more than what New York and Los Angles have combined, mind you two of the largest cities in the nation have had less homicides in their cities than Chicago has had. Chicago not only had 762 homicides, but also had 1,100 more shootings than they had previously in 2015. In comparison New York, which is the largest city in the nation, had only 334 homicides in 2016 and Los angles following behind with only 294.With all the homicides and shootings it has made the issue of gun violence a huge topic when pertaining to this city. In only the past year, police have retrieved 8,300 illegal guns. Another topic that has been brought into societies eyes is with the severe increase of violence is the areas where gangs are most typically active, these areas being areas with low-income families and predominantly black areas.

In 1988, Washington DC (with a population of 599,657) was considered the murder capital of the United States. In 1989 the murder rate had drastically jumped to 415, and in 1991 it had hit its peak at 482 murders. By 2009, with 100% of police departments reporting, the number of reported murders has plummeted to a low 144 murders, an all-time low.In the past the business district would criticize the police department’s handling of drug and violence is a big problem (Pinin, 1989), stating that the murder rate is directly connected to the wide spread drug use in the District. In the most recent years the murder rate in Washington DC has started to climb, a lot of people believe it is related to the drug use in the area and the Cities poverty level in the metropolitan areas of the city. The city has developed a zero tolerance program which seems to be lowering the crime

In article “Murder Isn’t a Nationwide Problem”, John R. Lott, Jr., does not struggle to layout the statistics that prove to us, the audience, that murder really isn’t a nationwide problem and that killings only take place in some places. In fact, the last sentence he states is: “To put it simply, murder isn’t a nationwide problem; it’s a problem in a very small set of urban areas”. Throughout the article, Lott, Jr. gives us many statistics saying the murders and the population in these “urban areas”.

To begin, the article by real clear policy stated that murder isn't a nationwide problem. After reading the article I've been facts with the facts and statistics proving that murders tend to happen in places of poverty or overpopulation. In fact, the article said that USA can be split up into three types, the first being where no murders are committed, the second being where little are committed and lastly, where murders are very common. I believe that depending on the conditions such as poverty, crime rates as well as gun rights or laws in an area will determine the commonality of violence and murder.

While the rate is roughly half of what it was twenty years ago, it remains a crime that takes many victims and impacts many more in society. Some researchers view poverty as a leading factor in homicide (Chapter 3). Socioeconomic status has gone up across the country an income has gone up and employment rate went down. Researchers believe that poverty is a factor that can explain the drop in homicide rates the last 20years. I think poverty can help logically explain why homicide rates has gone down because if you have less people unemployed and they are making more income you could have less crimes and homicide. Political and Law can play a role in murders of the time. In the past 20 years it has been a lot of laws and policy to crack down

Official crime statistics are obtained from ‘the records kept by the police and other official agencies’ (Moore, Aiken, Chapman 2006, p. 267). These records are gathered and published by the Home Office. According to Moore and Sinclair (1995) for an action to be officially categorised as a crime it should be considered as deviant and reported to the police. Then, the police should respond in the way which will start the legal process.

Murder is a form of violence that does more harm than just destruction of property but leads to a loss of life in the process, and that makes it more severe than other forms of violence that may just end at injuries to people or destruction of property (Staples 2014). The sociological approach to issues of murder in the city highlights how the society or the environment increases the cases of death or reduces them in a case where there are few cases of murder and how the revelation would relatively contribute in mitigating the cases of violence (Pratt and Godsey 2003). The trend in deaths across different cities including Philadelphia is a motivation that results from how the city operations are set and are functioning, the level of security

Homicide will always be a great issue in our society, it’s always been, since ancient times and probably in the remote future. Now that the Homicide rates have significantly increased, a great amount of people are beginning to actually realize that this is a serious crime and innocent individuals are losing their lives from the careless lifestyles of others. Homicide, however, is consistently changing depending upon the area in which it occurs in, and whom the loss of life and rascals are who are constraining these crimes, to the explanations for the certain murder, and the rate that the murders transpire. .According to the documents, they stated that many of the big homicide crimes are caused in the big cities rather than small towns. Don’t get it wrong, murders happen in almost all cities all over the world, but it is more likely for it to be in a city because of the increase in organized crime such as gangs.Gangs are a very big reason for drugs and reckless crimes ,in addition to that, drugs are the leading cause of murder ,without these drugs ,people would have enough sense not to go around killing other people.Although ,Some big cities that stick out because of the drugs to murder combination , were Washington D.C., New York, Las Angles, Birmingham, and Alabama.