Crime: Over the past 3 decades, crime has continued to be a major issue that has attracted huge

Assignment 2: Effects of crime and how the public services support victims and witnesses of crime

Richard Rosenfeld takes note to the rising crime statistics and relationship between the police and public, but also notes “It may also have to do with local factors specific to a particular city,”(Schuppe).

Beginning in the 1990’s, crime numbers began to fall and and there are many explanations for the decrease in crime. To begin, the police began using new catching approaches by changing aspects such as an increase in enforcement of nuisance activities. Additionally, they began to invest in their technology and started to identify crime hot spots. The hot spots are where crime is found most often but never recognized.

During the year of 2013 the NIBRS had a report of 4,927,535 incidents that involved 5,665,902 offenses, and it included over 5 million victims. Over 4 million were known offenders, but the agencies only reported over 1 million arrestees. The crimes of 2013 that were reported included 64.7 percent of them that were involved in crimes against property Such as “burglary” or “robbery”, 22.8 percent whose crimes were against persons such as “hate crimes” or “murder”, and 12.6 percent included crimes against society, which are known as “victimless crimes” or “illegal gambling.”

More serious crimes that take place, such as serial murders, tend to intrigue us and disgust us. We wonder how individuals can possibly commit such heinous crimes. Crimes such as stolen property do not tend to get as much attention, although a hurtful offense to the victim, it does not have the shock factor that rape, murder, and arson have. In this discussion, I would like go through different ways we measure crime and which form tends to receive the most accurate

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).

“It did not ask police to report victim or incident characteristics, had limited number of offence codes, and had no ability to add offence codes for new crimes (such as cybercrime) created through legislation” (Morden, H. K. and Palys, T., 2015). Due to the fact that the Uniform Crime Report is reported by the police, there has to be a witness that is willing to call the police and report the crime. In many cases, because of cultural differences, the crime may not even be recognized as illegal (Morden, H. K. and Palys, T., 2015). For example, “money is stolen from a person, but that person doesn’t recognize it or think that he/she might have lost it” (Morden, H. K. and Palys, T., 2015). Even after the police decides to respond to the crime, the police can decide whether or not they want to clear this case according to the seriousness of the crime. In some cases, the police let go of the offender because they don’t think it’s worth it to write a long report on it (Morden, H. K. and Palys, T., 2015). In the end, the official statistic is reduced as a result of the crime funnel, which is the number of cases that are filtered out in the criminal justice process (Morden, H. K. and Palys, T., 2015).

In chapter 4 the chapter considers a variety of possible explanations for the significant drop in crime and crime rates that occurred in the 1990s. Based on articles that appeared in the country’s largest newspapers, the authors compile a list of the leading, commonly offered explanations. The next step is to systematically examine each explanation and consider whether available data support the explanation. What the authors, in fact, demonstrate is that in all but three cases–increased reliance on prisons, increased number of police, and changes in illegal drug markets–correlation was erroneously interpreted as causation and in some cases, the correlation wasn’t even that strong.

1b.) The video states that some of the crimes that go unreported are rape, aggravated assault, and child abuse. The reasoning behind not reporting can vary from the victim choosing not to report the crime, the victim being unable to report the crime, and even the victim being unaware of the crime.

In the 1990 the crime rate in the United States dropped substantially. This, all over the United States, began to raise many question on why the crime rates had dropped so suddenly in a short amount of time. These questions were thought to be very intriguing to Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. They then decided to write a book call, “Freakonomic,” with a chapter inside called “Where Have All the Criminals Gone?” This chapter focused on why, in the 1990, had criminal rates dropped substantially.

The victim is too scared to report it. The British crime survey has for some time found that the feeling that the matter is too trivial is the most commonly cited reason for not reporting, or the victim felt that the police could do little about the offence. About violent crime, furthermore, the most common reason given for non-reporting was that victims considered the issue to be a private matter and wished to deal with it themselves. Crimes that which have not been reported are known as a "dark figure" of

The national crime rate has been dropping for the past several years. Over a 38% drop has been reported since 1993. The drop in the crime rate of America is mainly because of three top reasons. These reasons include the involvement of the community, the offenders of small crimes are being interrogated to come up with leads of larger crimes, and the new computer technology available today.

The decision to report crimes to the police can have extensive consequences for victims and the criminal justice system. However, the task of portraying accurate crime statistics is made difficult by the differences between numbers of incidents reported to police, and numbers of people who respond positively to victim surveys. Many people respond to surveys stating that they have been victims of crime, but did not report the crimes to the police. Almost one quarter of burglaries are not reported to police. About one half of robberies, and about two-thirds of assaults are not reported. The reasons for victims not reporting crimes include, but are not limited to the following - the victim felt that the crime was trivial or unimportant, was afraid of reprisal, the victim felt that the police would not, or could not do anything or that it incident

Crime is usually committed by the criminals with no problem, but it’s what comes after the crime that the victim is faced with that is the hard part. Crimes are supposed to be reported but unfortunately, sometimes victims fail to report them. People often forget how important reporting crime is. Without these crime reports it becomes very difficult to collect crime data. However, for all the unreported crimes, there are reported crimes, as well. When crimes are reported, it becomes easier for officials to collect crime data and measure crime. The main way crime is measured is by surveys and official records. There are various surveys and records used across the nation to monitor and measure the crime that takes place.

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