What Causes The High Crime Rates?

Memphis Tennessee statistics report an overall downward trend in crime based on data from fourteen years with violent crime increasing. In 2012 the city violent crime rate was higher than the national violent crime rate average by 352.41%. However Memphis crime rate is still high. Memphis was ranked third most dangerous city in America in 2014. The rate is steadily increasing. (neighborhoodscouts.com)

This project is a focus on how variables such as population, ethnicity, and income affect crime rates throughout different neighborhoods throughout a city. I feel that this information finding this information could be useful to many people. For example if you are looking to buy a new home or even start a new business, you’ll probably want it located in a safe neighborhood. This study will help identify the signs of a safe neighborhood. Knowing why crime rates are higher in some areas may also help prevent the crime rate to rise in other neighborhoods. For example, if crime rates are higher in neighborhoods with

The rise of crime in America seems like it is getting worse each and every year. To say that crime only exist in the hood is an understatement. Crime is happening everywhere in our poverty neighborhoods, even in the wealthiest neighborhoods crime is happening. You have different types of crime weather it is murders, shoplifting, robberies it happens. Rising murders and homicides in cities deserve attention now before it’s too late and it’s one of our loved ones.

According to Siegel and Worrall (2014), there are various factors that criminologists believe affect the crime trend in the United States. Most of these factors are socioeconomic and demographic. One’s age, mental health and the ability to seek and receive treatment for mental health issues, the ability and ease of getting a gun, or even drug use are all possible factors that influence the crime rate in the United States. One must also though consider that when the economy is on the brink of collapse, crime can go up; however, when the economy is succeeding, crime rate will go down. What is crime like in the United States?

When considering the variables that were utilized in the study, the rates of crime, burglary, ambush, assault, thievery, robbery, etc. per predetermined population were identified by the scholars as dependent variables. It is worth mentioning that the data were retrieved from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (1981-2001). Due to the missing data issues, several cities were dropped by the researchers.

According to the FBI data on violent crime in 2013 shows that there has been a decrease of 4.4 percent in the level of crime over the years ("FBI — Violent Crime," 2010). Since the public has based their assumption that the socioeconomic can determine the level of crime one can commit at a given time. Basically, there is close gap between the socioeconomic and the level of crime one commit, and again, crime varies across geographical

Throughout the years, crime rates in Canada’s and the United States’ major cities have decreased drastically. Regardless of the many factors that lead to increasing crime rates, such as unemployment, or bad economic circumstances. This essay will examine the many factors leading to the exponential decline of crime rates in North America. This essay will demonstrate how unemployment and economic hardship does not always lead to higher crime rates, how the growing increase of new technology aided in the decrease in crime rates, and the result of government funded programs helping to reduce crime rate. These factors should be discussed because it illustrates the progress of the judicial system and federal government throughout the years and it shows that people most vulnerable to committing crimes may not always commit crime. Similarly, it shows that economic factors leading to crime in the past are not always the case due to positive behavioral changes throughout the years.

Two cities I decided to identify were Cambridge, Massachusetts and Syracuse, New York. In recent years from 2010 to 2014 trends I’ve identified were violent crime rates of both cities. From 2010 to 2013 in the city of Syracuse violent crime total have gradually increased. From 2010 to 2014 in the city Cambridge the violent crime total has gradually decreased. The property crime total in Syracuse has fluctuated between the years of 2010 to 2014.

The UCR collects crime data from all law enforcement agencies by the police and reports the information to the FBI. This paper will use the table-building tool, provided on the FBI page, to find the violent crime rates and property crimes rate for ten states, along with examine the trends in reported crimes for a twenty-year period.

In larger cities you will have a greater amount of businesses and population than you would in smaller towns. Because of that there is always going to be a greater rate in criminal activity. “This pattern has convinced some criminologist that regional cultural values influence rates; others believe that regional differences can be explained by economic differences” (Siegel, 48).

Over population in prisons are becoming a frequent problem. High crime rates and stricter law are causes a mass incarnation level. Due to budget cuts Ohio is letting 6,000 convicted felons out early. Prisoners with low-level drug offences are eligible for early releasement. These criminals will be released to half-way houses. There they will be monitored by probation officers who will help them reenter society. This was a new idea presented by the prison chief Gary Mohr. He presented a new budget to the Ohioan government with the idea to spend less money on prisons and more money towards rehabilitation programs. Chief Morh’s argumentative point was, “Do we invest in people or in bricks and mortar? To build and operate one prison for two decades would cost Ohioans one billion dollars”. Keeping jails operating is a hefty expenses. A study by Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts showed that Ohio’s crime rate dropped 23% in 1993 -2012 but surprisingly incarceration rate rose 17%. Hopes for the rerelease is to save the state tax payers money, as well as, to fix a broken system. I believe that the Nixon’s war on drugs campaign, produced inefficient drug laws and taxpayer money should be spent on rehabilitation programs rather than building brink and morters.

Crime control helps keep order in cities. The crime statistics are taken in two major ways. collecting crime data are law enforcement reports and victimization statistical surveys (Boundless.com) In a big city where more crime happens more law enforcemt will be

To say that crime is everywhere is an understatement. Of course, there are towns and cities that are safer than others, and neighborhoods within those cities and towns that are safer than others. I recall one summer not too long ago, my younger cousins came down to New Bedford (my home city) to stay with my grandparents for a week. They are from Tewksbury; quite a different town than the city of New Bedford. As we were driving through the South End of New Bedford, my cousin Liam asked me if we were going to be shot. The South End of New Bedford has its criminal proclivities, so I couldn’t pretend the South End didn’t look dangerous, especially to someone coming from Tewksbury. Purely as an illustration, the website Neighborhood Scout allows one to look up their respective town or city and look at it’s crime index. This is simply a number that indicates the percentage of cities in the US that the searched location is. Tewksbury has a crime index number of 39, meaning it is 39% safer than the cities in the US (“Tewksbury MA”). New Bedford’s index number is 9 (“New Bedford MA”). This isn’t to say that all of New Bedford is crime ridden or dangerous; the North End is quite safe, for example. And I’m sure that not all of Tewksbury is safe, either. The same goes for Salem, and the neighborhood with the highest crime rate, the Point.

In recent years, there has been a huge increase in crime rates. This significant rise in crime has been attributed to the increase in the level of unemployment. This research paper will try to determine if there is any correlation between the increased crime rates and unemployment. This issue is important because the outcome of the research can be used by policy to determine effective means of dealing with this menace of crime. Additionally, the research will help to identify the various aspects that lead to unemployment and how this challenge can be dealt with effectively.

In this study, we will attempt to examine the relationship, if any, between criminal activity and the unemployment rate. My hypothesis is that higher unemployment leads to higher crime rates. Our belief stems from the fact that the cities in the United States with the highest crime rates all have a poverty level higher than the U.S. average of 15.1%.2 For Example, Detroit had the highest reported violent crime rate of 2,072/100,000 people, with almost 40% of their population living below the poverty level.3