Rates of Violence

According to Statistics Canada, from 2010-2014, there was a total of 2730 homicides in Canada. Out of 2730, 795 of homicides was because of shooting. In comparison,

The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network state that every two minutes, someone is sexually assaulted in the United States. In 2007 there were 248,300 victims of sexual assault (US department of Justice).

Turning on the news when you get home, and if it’s not the weather or traffic on, there is a strong chance, it's a news report about another crime committed in America. Violence and crime are way too common in today’s society. In my opinion, I believe gun control, mental disorders, and how we are brought up are just some of the reasons we have so much violence and crime.

In 2014 the FBI reported that there were a total of 11,961 murders. The FBI reports United States murders by weapon as: 8,124 by firearms, 1,567 by knives, 660 by personal means 434 by blunt object, 96 by asphyxiation, 89 by strangulation, 71 by fire, 62 by narcotics, 14 by drowning, 7 by poison, 6 by explosives, and 830 unspecified weapons (Quandel, 2014).

According to the FBI’s UCR U.S, violent crime rate is 375.7 per 100,000 and property crime of 2,596.1 per 100,000 (UCR, 2017)

“Crime is ubiquitous meaning that there is no country where crime does not exist” (Mooney p111). In fact, most countries have the same components in their criminal justice system: police, courts, and prisons. Last, but not least, adult males make up the largest category of crime committed. “For a violation to be a crime, the offender must have acted voluntarily and with intent and

Crime rates vary wildly throughout the years in the United States. According to the FBI web site "Crime in the United States 2015, reveals a 3.9 percent increase in the estimated number of violent crimes and a 2.6 percent decrease in the estimated number of property crimes last year when compared to 2014 data." An increase of 3.9 percent in violent crimes from 2014 to 2015 is very high compared to a total estimate of 1,165,383 violent crimes that occurred nationwide in 2014 according to the FBI website. It is scary to think that our nation rose 3.9 percent in the category of violent crimes in a period of a year. Violent crimes consist of murder, non-negligent man slaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault which are pretty serious crimes which took a

An empirical assessment having being done indicate that the crime being experience in Puerto Rico is largely being contributed by the following two reasons. Firstly, due to the scarcity of primary data on homicide cases which is constantly being eliminated from various analysis of crimes by the United States and secondly, Puerto Rico have

As stated earlier someone becomes a victim of robbery every minute and half which date reveals that this is a serious problem when comparing on a international, national and state level, but according to FBI UCR 2013 Reports victims of robbery has dropped a total of 8.1 percent in United states in the Midwest, West, Northeast and South. However, in Maryland alone there are over a little of 10,000 robbery victims reported. There is little to no statistics when comparing the data between the number of robbery victims on international level. Terrell add this possibly (Robberies across the country have increased however like England and Wales over the last decade according to Center for problem oriented

Crime is bad; it cannot be prevented nor ignored. Crime is everywhere we look. There is crime in cities, states, and countries. People have many different motives and reasons for committing crimes. A couple reasons include drugs, mental disorder, racism, poverty, and TV violence. About 360 crimes were reported in 2013. The top three common crimes in America include burglary, vehicle theft, and aggravated assault. This essay will go over the different crimes and how everyone can prevent them.

Overall violent crime and property offenses declined slightly last year across much of the country, continuing a downward trajectory even as some communities battled disparate surges in violence, according to a new FBI report. Robbery recorded the largest decline at 5.6%, and murder was down 0.5% in 2014, but rape and aggravated assault ticked up 2.4% and 2%, respectively, the report found. Property offenses dropped in each category: Burglary was down 10.5%, larceny-theft declined by nearly 3% and vehicle thefts declined by 1.5%. Long one of the most contentious parts of the annual FBI crime report has been its count of civilians killed by police. That count, averaging about 400 per year, has been criticized as inaccurate as it is drawn only

Rape is a dark, scary nightmare that comes true a lot and no one wants to have or hear about. According to www.rainn.org it comes, unfortunately, every ninety-eight seconds to an American. On average, there are 321,500 victims between the ages of 12 or older in the United States. In Kansas alone, there are 21 to 40 victims per year as stated by www.cnn.com. The country with the highest rape crime rate in South Africa.

David Downes and Paul Rock proposed that crime should be viewed and a necessary factor that is a ‘healthy social phenomenon’ in societies. This shows that Durkheim sparked the recognition that crime should be viewed as a ‘healthy’ normality at sensible levels, rather than is being viewed as a solely negative factor that brings society down. Crime and deviance is supposedly is key to regularity in society, it provides a huge amount of public understanding and social acceptance to the existence of crime. In doing this Durkheim allowed a new understanding that crime was something not to be assumed as something that should be feared within society because it is in actual fact “A normal product of stable institutions”. This was an entirely new and innovative concept at the time of the theory of functionalisms introduction, people lived in fear of crime and people who possess deviant characteristics.

While the rest of the world appears to be seeing decreasing levels of violence, it appears the Middle East has yet to experience this same trend. The past couple of decades have seen either a decrease in violence and types of violence that the West has not experienced for a time. This then brings the questions, is the Middle East more violent or is nothing more than Islamophobia. One way to answer this question is to look at the numbers. In Pinker's, The Better Angels of our Nature, he compares the number of interstate conflicts with the number of Islamic conflicts. By this graph, it can be clearly seen that since the 1990s, the number of interstate conflicts has been decreasing, but the number of Islamic conflicts has not. With the use of this data, he shows that the Middle East has not been following the trends of less violence as compared with the rest of the world. However, is this data alone to say that the Middle East is more violent? There are a number of issues need to be looked at besides conflict. These include other types of violence.

In America, the low estimated amount of rapes for every year is 300,000 and the high estimate yearly is 1.3 million, that is hundreds of thousands of women raped in 365 days while estimated 16,000 people are murdered yearly in America. That number is less than half of the lowest estimated rapes yearly.