Examples of Crime Statistics in the following topics:
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- Crime statistics attempt to provide statistical measures of the crime in societies.
- Crime statistics attempt to provide statistical measures of the crime in societies.
- Because of the difficulties in quantifying how much crime actually occurs, researchers generally take two approaches to gathering statistics about crime.
- This allows degrees of confidence to be assigned to various crime statistics.
- Evaluate U.S. crime statistics and the various ways law enforcement officials gather them
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- A violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim.
- Violent crimes include crimes committed with and without weapons.
- The comparison of violent crime statistics between countries is usually problematic due to the way different countries classify crime.
- Often this is not possible because crime statistics aggregate equivalent offences in such different ways that make it difficult or impossible to obtain a valid comparison.
- The United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) counts five categories of crime as violent crimes: murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault.
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- Crime statistics are usually data collected by governments for the reporting of incidents of criminal activity.
- The statistics included in this section were chosen to provide a sampling of how crime statistics can be useful beyond simply reporting incidents of criminal behavior.
- It is important to understand that crime statistics do not provide a perfect view of crime.
- Government statistics on crime only show data for crimes that have been reported to authorities.
- Another telling crime statistic that is traditionally seen as highlighting power imbalances is the number of rapes in society.
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- Crimes may also result in cautions, rehabilitation, or be unenforced.
- Individual human societies may each define crime and crimes differently, in different localities, and at different time stages of the crime.
- For example: as cultures change and the political environment shifts, societies may criminalize or decriminalize certain behaviors, which directly affects the statistical crime rates, influences the allocation of resources for the enforcement of laws, and re-influences the general public opinion.
- Similarly, changes in the collection and calculation of data on crime may affect the public perceptions of the extent of any given "crime problem."
- All such adjustments to crime statistics, together with the experience of people in their everyday lives, shape attitudes on the extent to which the state should use law or social engineering to enforce or encourage any particular social norm.
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- The first, crime is the violation of formally enacted laws and is referred to as formal deviance.
- Sociological interest in deviance includes both interests in measuring formal deviance (statistics of criminal behavior; see below), examining how people (individually and collectively) define some things deviant and others normative, and a number of theories that try to explain both the role of deviance in society and its origins.
- This chapter will cover the theories of deviance used by sociologists and will also cover current crime statistics.
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- Sex crimes are forms of human sexual behavior that are crimes.
- Some sex crimes are crimes of violence that involve sex.
- The United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) counts five categories of crime as violent crimes: murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault.
- Sex crimes are forms of human sexual behavior that are crimes.
- Some sex crimes are crimes of violence that involve sex.
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- Examples of white-collar crimes include:
- As of 2009, the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics do not provide clear statistics on white-collar crime, like they do with other types of crime.
- Most of the statistics provided are estimates of losses resulting from white-collar crime, which include:
- That such crimes are not tracked more clearly suggests that there is less of an emphasis placed on prosecuting white collar crime than there is on prosecuting other types of crime (property and violent crime) in the U.S.
- It may also be the case that it is difficult to collect such statistics, but that is also likely due to the fact that a system for tracking such crimes has not been put into place because such crimes are not seen as warranting the same amount of attention as exists for other types of crimes.
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- The peak age for property crime arrests in the United States is 16, compared to 18 for violent crime arrests.
- Property crimes are high-volume crimes, with cash, electronics, power tools, cameras, and jewelry often targeted.
- Some crime prevention programs, such as Neighborhood Watch, have shown little effectiveness in reducing burglary and other crime.
- Statistics for violent crimes are accessible and available to the public.
- The peak age for property crime arrests in the United States is 16, compared to 18 for violent crime arrests.
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- The study, which appeared in the September 2008 issue of the Journal of Genetic Psychology, is the first to establish a statistically significant association between an affinity for antisocial peer groups and a particular variation (called the 10-repeat allele) of the dopamine transporter gene (DAT1).
- A juvenile delinquent is a person who is typically under the age of 18 and commits an act that would have otherwise been charged as a crime if the minor was an adult.
- Delinquency: crimes committed by minors that are dealt with by the juvenile courts and justice system;
- There is also a significant skew in the racial statistics for juvenile offenders.
- There are a multitude of different theories on the causes of crime, most if not all of which can be applied to the causes of youth crime.
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- Global crime, such as Transnational Organized Crime, refers to any crime that is coordinated across national borders.
- Global crime can refer to any organized crime that occurs at an international or transnational level.
- Like national and local organized crime, global crime includes highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit.
- Transnational organized crime (TOC or transnational crime) is organized crime coordinated across national borders, involving groups or networks of individuals working in more than one country to plan and execute illegal business ventures.
- While the International Criminal Court can prosecute individuals for crimes against humanity, it has no jurisdiction over other global crimes.