Violent Crime-Related Deaths In America

When we get into how society and people look at crime, it happens in every city, every neighborhood, people are victims every day, businesses, and even property. Crime dates back since colonization and the rates have varied over time, believe it or not, crime has decreased over the years. As a matter of fact, the United States has been on a decline. The crime rate for the year 2000 was a total of 11,608,072 a declining year in 2015 with a total of 9,225,197. (U.S. Department of Justice)

Just by reading your local newspaper, you will find that a number of crimes happen in your own community. Recently, in a local community in Virginia a 25-year-old man was charged with murder and robbery, when he shot a 55-year-old man who was out walking his dog around 9:40 PM. Police report that the victim was approached by the suspect, shot the victim and robbed him and then fled the scene. Police were given the description of the man they saw fleeing the scene. It was also reported that the gun used in this crime was stolen from a car in a local neighborhood (Aric Alexander Smith). Not all crimes are preventable; sometimes criminals are determined to commit a crime for one reason or another. In this case, it may not have

The UCR, Uniform Crime Reports and NCVS, National Crime Victimization Survey are designed to gather data on the national crime rates in the United States. The UCR collects and reports raw figures on the crime rates per 100,000, the changes in crime rates and clearance rates. NCVS provides information about victims, offenders, and crimes, such as weapon used, time and place of occurrence as well as nature of injury.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), every year a survey called the National Crime Victimization Survey collects data on non-fatal crimes (BJS, 2015). The BJS conduct this survey every year to find out how many personal crimes are being committed and how many of those crimes are being reported or not reported. Personal crimes can range from rape to robbery to burglary to larceny. The last important thing to note here is that the survey gathers information about the offender, this includes sex, race, and age. Some discrepancy that my come up is that the information that this survey gathers is from a sample of only 90,000 household and approximately 160,000 people. One question to ask would be where were the houses chosen from,

The National Crime Victimization Survey is a yearly self-report survey that is a nationally representative sample for the United States. This is 38,000 households who are replaced every three years to different household. This is about 68,000 people. The interviews have many questions and take place twice a year.

So when shootings occur, especially mass shootings, “the media’s framing of crime-related issues often dictates whether public opinion will perceive crime as a concern of individual or social responsibility” (Iyengar cited by Payne 2014). So in other words, should the public be concerned about specific individuals on a micro level or should everyone be accounted for. In such cases where mass shootings occur the response to such events from our government is to remind us of the gun violence, to continue and place more fear into society. They briefly address the mental health system before going onto the “real” situation which is “the role of gun policies in an attempt to ameliorate the public’s growing demand of gun reform in the aftermath of

man pointed a gun at the boy, the boy shot the man. Who knows what could have happened if this boy didn’t have a gun. Him and all three of his young siblings could have been shot and killed. Guns save lives, and in a nation that already has more than 200 million guns, gun control does little other than make the work of rapists, robbers, murderers and psychos easier. When faced with gun control laws, the law abiding citizen has no choice other than to disarm or become an outlaw, but people with bad intentions are faced with no such moral dilemma.

Over several years gun violence has became an epidemic. Gun control supporters in the public health field claim that gun violence has become a “epidemic.” The American gun murder rate is 25 times the amount of the other high income nations gun murder rate. In 2015, over 36,000 people died due to gun violence and gunfire. Also America’s national firearm death rate climbed to 12.0 pre 100,000 people in 2016, according

Most individuals will experience some form of crime in their lifetime. This crime can range from civil or violent. Civil crime cases are cases that involve private citizens or companies in a dispute over money, contract agreements, divorce, child support, etc. Criminal cases are separated into three categories: infractions cases, which would consist of traffic tickets, misdemeanors cases such as shoplifting, and felony cases, which would consist of violent crimes committed against another person such as rape, domestic violence, and armed robbery.

The prison violence has brought about more conduct issue for prisoners, Rather than help with how society manages the issue of brutal detainees. Our nation's judicial system is overcrowded, costly, and inadequate and also wasteful. According to the statistical report 4,443 people were incarcerated in California state prison reducing to 3,878.yet, New York state prison population had 19,984 occupied beds in 2006; reducing the amount of inmates incarcerated in 2012/13 to 54,235 overall decreasing by

The gun problem in America takes root in our very own foundations. And so, this issue will only rise and drastically increase homicide and suicide rates. Virtually, this issue cannot be deterred completely as it is “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” (Second Amendment: Cornell.edu).Therefore, this cannot be completely disbanded due to this being an amendment protected by the constitution. Secondly, this will only keep the gun violence in a rise as most households feel that it is safer to keep a firearm at home.

According to CNN, “close to 33,000 Americans were victims of gun-related deaths in 2011 and an average of 268 citizens are shot every day”. Thousands of children and women are the victim of gun violence. Gun violence in the United States is increasing as each year passes by. Most of the time, poor people or low class people are the victim of gun violence. In the United States, by the law, a license is required to have a gun, but law informant agencies are failing to do that. Some people are carrying guns without a license, and use them to commit crimes, such as robberies and murdering innocent people. Some people argue that guns should be limited to only police officers and military, and citizens should not be allowed to carry guns. They

The United States of America saw an estimated 1,197,704 violent crimes in 2015 (FBI, 2016). The different types of crime that are included within this statistic are rapes, aggravated assaults, robberies, and murders (FBI, 2016). It is astounding that there are this many crimes that are happening in this country alone in one year. This statistic of crime doesn’t even include the amount of property crimes that occurred in 2015. Even though crime has been declining over the past few decades, there is still too much crime that is going on across the nation. Police departments are having difficult times keeping up with the amount of calls for service received daily. Something needs to be done to drastically reduce the amounts of crime in the

Furthermore, evidence as been shown that an individual being exposed to a violent crime within a specific time period of an assessment ensures them a lower mark. Sharkey, Schwartz, Ellen, & Lacoe (2014) affirm, “Black students who are exposed to violent crime in the week prior to the exam are 2.8 percentage points less likely to pass the exam than black students exposed to violent crime in the week following the exam,” (p. 211).

Crime, death, and destruction is a big problem in Latin America. People are getting severely harmed and killed by many things, such as gangs drug, trafficking, human trafficking, not only those things but many others. A lot of people in the world are trying to help the people that are causing major problems to the world’s economy and the people living in it. Sadly, it doesn’t or won’t stop because people think they can do what they want and get away with anything they want without thinking that it’s bad enough not to go to jail. Although, the crime rate in Latin America is higher in some countries, like for instance Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Murders and violence are a big problem that need to be controlled and solved by not only government officials but the people themselves.