cities, the authors examine the reciprocal effects of racial composition and violent-crime rates over the last 40 years. While racial composition strongly affects the change in violent-crime rates from 1980 to 1990, it only minimally affects changes in rates for the previous three decades; but ...
Life in the District The District of Columbia has seen a fluctuating population over the past few decades. Its population decreased throughout the 1990s, when its crime rate was at its peak, but has been steadily recovering since then. While unemployment in the District has also been falling,...
Violent crime rates are still well below the rates of previous decades, but the jump has prompted concern in locales in different parts of the country and has become a part of the debate over electing a new mayor in New York City. It is also a potential problem for the White House an...
Violent crime has been commonplace in Latin America over the past decades. While existing research has made progress in explaining the rationale and outcomes of government coercive strategies against crime, it has overlooked the non-coercive strategies implemented to improve public security. It is argue...
2021 among deadliest years for gun violence in decades as violent crime surgesAccording to the Gun Violence Archive, more than 20,000 people have been killed this year alone from gun violence. The White House announced a new strategy to combat gun violence that includes a "zero toleran...
Violent crimes in Oakland increased by more than 20% last year, according to the city’s police department. Photo by Shutterstock.Violent crime in Oakland increased by more than 20% last year, while it decreased in other California cities, including LA. Robberies and burglary rat...
Beyond the obvious issues of concern, like "what happened to riding bikes around the neighborhood," there are bigger questions. Many people wonder how this type of exposure to violence as an adolescent effects social behavior. The rise in dramatically violent shootings by teenagers, many of ...
but the clown posse was convinced they wouldn’t be able to afford him. Fortunately for them, Charlie was “so into the message of the festival,” (read: so fired fromTwo and A Half Men), that both sides agreed on a “reasonable amount” for him to face the clown army this August....
We find that the estimated effect of the number of police on recorded and victim-reported crime is similar for property crime but different for violent crime. Our findings suggest that higher numbers of police not only reduce crime rates but also increase the share of crime, and in particular...
crime among individuals with DDs, including dissociative, emotion dysregulation, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depressive symptoms, as well as problematic substance use. We hypothesized that crime rates would be low in our sample of individuals with DDs, with the majority of patients ...