The topic of crime in the United States is very broad, technically covering any action that is punishable under a state or federal law. Any analysis of the topic therefore requires division into further sub-categories. One common way to do this is to limit analysis to crimes involving jail ...
Fear of crime affects far more people in the United States than crime itself, and there are sound reasons for treating crime and fear of crime as distinct social problems. After assessing the state of knowledge on fear, this chapter considers whether public fear of crime can and ought to be...
After an introductory overview, this report covers information on murder, manslaughter, and homicide, as well as cases of rape and sexual assualt. It then follows up with data on robbery, aggravated assault, and presents information on mass shootings in the United States. ...
Crime is a subject about which everyone has theories and ideas but which has produced a deafening silence from its most knowing observers: America’s police chiefs. Criminologists and scholars have rushed into the void with learned tomes and sweeping sug
the one state in the United States—Texas—that tracks criminal arrests and convictions by immigration status. A growing volume of research demonstrates that not only do immigrants commit fewer crimes, but they also do not raise crime rates in the U.S. communities where they settle. In fact,...
crime in the City of Los Angeles dating back to 2020. This data is transcribed from original crime reports that are typed on paper and therefore there may be some inaccuracies within the data. Some location fields with missing data are noted as (0°, 0°). Address fields are only ...
In the United States, crime worries a lot of people. Every year, the number of crimes goes up. And many criminals are young. Most of them --- 85 percent are boys. They often come from sad homes, with only one parent or no parents at all. There are problems with alcohol(烈酒) and...
Conversely, we find that the release of best-selling nonviolent (Everyone-rated) video games is not associated with a change in crime in the weeks directly following the release. Our results suggest that the release of violent video games increases crime in the United States, at least in the...
This paper empirically assesses the effects of socio-economic and demographic variables on violent crime in the United States. Using national-level time-series data over the period 1960–2000, an unrestricted vector autoregressive (VAR) model was estimated for overall violent crime, murder, rape and...
Public crime laboratories in theUnited States Of the approximately 400 public crime labs in the United States, only a handful are administered by the federal government. One of the most famous of those is that of theFederal Bureau of Investigation(FBI), which processes evidence from FBI investiga...