National Crime Victimization Survey

witnesses to it. Children exposed to such violence at an early age are likely to become either perpetrators of abuse or victims of violence in adulthood" (Family Violence, 2010). Prior to this report the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), a detailed report which is comprised of gathered data about crimes using an ongoing, nationally representative sample of households in the United States, found that "between 1993 and 1998, the average number of victims of intimate partner violence who lived with

usually don’t see an image of youth in our heads, we automatically tend to see an image of male adults with tattoos, guns, drugs, etc. However, this is not always the case; some gang members are also juveniles. A data from Denver 's self-reported youth survey alone, found that 47 percent of gang members were ages 12 to 14, 31 percent were ages 15 to 16, and 22 percent were ages 17 to 18. (Robert, Herbert, & Scott, 2016) When looking at the number of active youth gangs nationally,

2010). There are many forms of abuse from verbal and emotional to physical that often escalates over time in intensity for the victim. Data from the criminal justice system, hospital patient medical records and mental health records, police reports, surveys and social services reports of thousands of women revealed that many are injured and killed as a result of violence from someone close to them. “The US Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) defines domestic violence as a pattern of abusive behavior

Drug courts integrates intensive judicial supervision, mandatory drug testing, and escalating treatment that breaks the cycle of addiction and the crime that follows. 4 In a ten-year study done by The National Institute of Justice, it was found that drug courts lower re-arrests and lower costs. They tracked 6,500 offenders in Multnomah County Drug Court between 1991 and 2001. Re-arrests were found to be lower after five years

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) focuses on human rights. One human right that is important and should be justified with the UDHR is discrimination based on sexual orientation and hate crimes towards those that identify themselves differently from others. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community is a growing community. Underneath the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), it mentions the right to protect the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)

criminology. Differential association theory was developed by Edwin H. Sutherland in attempt to explain the motives and reasons behind why an individual commits crime. Sutherland proposed that crime occurred more often in regions that lacked social organization or bodies of social control. This theory can be summarized on the idea that people commit crimes based around their connections and relations with other people they closely interact with. Criminal behavior is learned through an individual’s association

Political culture has been a popular concept over the years, and has consisted of assumptions about political societies around the world. It is expressed as a system of shared beliefs and values which defines the situation in which political actions take place by ‘forming a particular pattern of orientation’ (Elkins. D and Simeon, R. 1979). It provides meaning and structure to the political sphere and is also a reflection of government practices which incorporates elements of history that predate

States is a person who is typically under the age of 17 and commits an act that otherwise would have been charged as a crime if they were an adult. Depending on the type and severity of the offense committed, it is possible for persons under 18 to be charged and tried as adults. Juvenile crimes can range from status offenses (such as underage smoking), to property crimes and violent crimes. The first Juvenile court was formed in the year 1899 in Chicago, Illinois. In earlier times juveniles were not granted

accurately gauge, as crimes of a sexual nature are frequently underreported (text, 537). According to the National Crime Victimization Survey from 2011, in the duration of one minute - just sixty seconds - 24 individuals are raped, physically attacked, or stalked. This source, distributed by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, is the most accurate and comprehensive, therefore the most reliable for a percentage such as this (text, 538). While men can be, and are, the victims of such crimes, they are more

How Stratification Creates Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System The population at large in the United Stated is very different than the population of the prison system. Racial inequality in the criminal justice system is often ignored because it does not affect most people. If there is to be a change in racial inequality, this issue is one that must be addressed. According to Inequality and Incarceration, “497 out of 100,000 Americans are imprisoned.” This means there is “less than one