Essays on Crime Statistics

A Review of Literature

INTRODUCTION The United States has currently been struggling with a great deal of political warfare, social unrest and public protest from the inside and from terrorism, global criticism and immigration battles from the outside. There are so many issues that the subjects of debate seem endless. One of the most controversial and often debated issues today is gun control. There is no doubt that it is incredibly dangerous when offenders are armed when they commit crimes like burglary or in a car-jacking; more so when these offenders have every premeditated intent to kill. At the same time, not everyone ...

Overall Decrease in Juvenile Arrests

Roughly 2.11 million juveniles were arrested in 2008 for various offenses. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR), this figure translated to an overall reduction of juvenile arrests by three percent as compared to the same period in 2007 (Puzzanchera, 2009). While the violent crime arrests were found to be increasing in 2005 and 2006, the report shows that arrests of individuals under age 18 involved in violent crime are on a downward trend, with violent crime arrests in 2008 being two percent lower than in 2007. Even though the total number of arrests is lowest in ...

The Brady campaign to prevent gun violence uses gun crime statistics to try to show the high rate of crime because of high gun possession. Predictably, this organization will use gun crime statistics to show the dangers of having many guns and the need to control gun ownership. The NRA on the other hand puts forward the argument that incidences of gun violence decrease if more guns are in the hands of the population. Clearly, statistics should prove one side of the argument wrong because the numbers are the same. However, each side tries to use the statistics that ...

Uniform crime reporting is the process by which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) collects data on crime and crime rates in the United States and uses these data sources to predict crime trends (FBI, 2010). It gathers crime statistics from various law enforcement agencies and then publishes the official reports for further national analysis and comparison. It is a program originally created by the Social Science Research Council and the International Association of Chiefs of Police in the 1920s. Uniform crime reporting is based on the assumption or premise that crimes such as forcible rape, murder, manslaughter, motor ...

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In the year 2014, the citizens of California voted for the passage of Proposition 47 (Couzens & Bigelow, 2016). The intention of Proposition 47 was to ensure that the amount of money spent on prisons and jails of California was reduced. An alternative was to be undertaken on the nonviolent and non-serious offences. The money saved due to Proposition 47 was to be used for other important programs and activities in the state. Some of those programs include support of high-level education and treatment of those people with mental problems. After the adoption of the Proposition 47, criticism emerged as ...

Crime statistics remains an essential component in the field of criminology that helps in formulating effective criminal justice policy. For over four decades, the Uniform Crime Reporting System (UCR), the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), and its predecessor National Crime Survey (NCS) has been used in the United States to gather crime statistics. These methods have been used at the national level to estimate the crime and changes in the crime rates in the United States. Such data has helped the policymakers to develop sound policies that help to mitigate the problem of crime in the United States' societies ( ...

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Relationship between Remote Sensing and GIS 3 Increased Interest to Understand the Earth 4 Applications of Geographic Information Systems 5 Mapping Data 5 Proximity Analysis 6 Buffering 7 Finding Clusters 7 Finding the Nearest 7 Disaster Management 7 Crime Statistics 8 Archaeology 8 Health Management 8 Conclusion 9

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Geographic Information Systems The use of Geographic Information Systems has significantly transformed over the past ten years. GIS has brought the golden age of powerful information technology that enables people to store large sets of data. This technology has also expanded system memories, and the process is affordable to many. Initially, ...