...Analysis and the common perception of property crime This project will determine whether or not a relationship exists between various variables as they pertain to, or not, property crime. Property crime affects everyone in the population, directly or indirectly. The ability to understand and predict indicators (independent variables) of property crime can help focus the finite assets of society and the government to reduce, or in a utopic vision eliminate, property crime. To help determine the applicability of the variables, a multiple regression was performed on the property crime dataset (appendix A) to analyze the dependent or independent relations to the crime variable. APPX A shows the results of the regression analysis between each of the 8 variables when associated with crime. By using Minitab 16 for this procedure, tests were run to measure the relative p-values among the independent variables. Each independent variable in the regression models had tolerance values close to 0.1 and variance inflation factors (VIF) well below the target value (below 0.05, Allen tutorials cconline.net/browna/tutorials_mt16.htm). In fact, all were below 0.05 indicating the predictive value of the regression models and the rejection of Ho (null hypothesis) Ho: none of the variables predict Property Crime Ha: at least one of the independent variables is helpful to predict property crime The dependent variable is CRIMES: Property crime rate per 100k inhabitants. The independent...
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...The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) are two major sources of crime statistics commonly used in the United States (Sources of Crime Data: Uniform Crime Reports and the National Incident-Based Reporting System). Crime statistics is a complex process that is held to reflect accurately the incidence of crime in society (Criminal Statistics). Crime statistics first took shape in France in 1827, and it is now based on recorded offences and can be drawn from aggregate data recorded by official agencies such as the police and courts along with criminological research (Criminal Statistics). Criminology is the study of crime and in order to understand crime, one must study its existences along with...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics Juvenile Crime Statistics Law enforcement agencies like to figure out statistics whether it be for adults or juveniles. Statistics give law enforcement agencies an overall view of the rates, whether rates increased or decreased and also allows law enforcement agencies to show the people what is going on. Statistics for juveniles are just as important as they are for adults. Arrest statistics is one set of statistics law enforcement agencies track. “Arrest statistics report the number of arrests that law enforcement agencies made in a given year” (Puzzanchera, 2008). Males, females, race and ethnicity are different categories arrests rates are tracked and viewed. When tracking arrest rates law enforcement agencies can also see what crime more arrests happen for. Juvenile statistics show law enforcement agencies and society how the juveniles are doing when it comes to arrests. Overall Decrease in Juvenile Arrests Juveniles are being arrested every day for multiple reasons. When juveniles are arrested society does not hear anything about it because when a juvenile is arrested or involved in any sort of situation with law enforcement it is kept confidential to protect the juvenile. Juvenile arrests statistics for a given year show whether juvenile arrests increased or decreased from previous years and the overall goal is for the rates to decrease. “In 2008, law enforcement agencies in the United States made an estimated 2.11 million arrests of...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics Kimberlee K. Curley CJA/374 January 9, 2012 Joseph Maffia Juvenile Crime Statistics The following paper will include a discussion on juvenile crime statistics; the areas to examine will include the following points. The overall decrease in juvenile arrests, increase in drug offenses and simple assault, female, ethnic, and racial arrests, the increase in arrests for females and the decrease in arrests for males for violent crimes, and an assessment of tracking methods in measuring trends in juvenile crimes. Between the years 1999 and 2008, the crime rate concerning juveniles first saw a significant rise in juvenile arrests in the years 2005 and 2006. In the later two years there was approximately a 3% decrease in arrests concerning juvenile crimes (Puzzanchera, 2009). Property crimes saw a large increase whereas violent crimes were proportionately smaller in percentage; arson and vandalism are at the top of the list. The number of arrests made was larger than the number of cases cleared by arrests, this may be because juveniles are easier to apprehend than adult offenders (Puzzanchera, 2009). Arrests for simple assaults increased substantially from 1980 to 1997, a rate increase of 156%. While there has been a slight decline in the last two years the rate for arrests of simple assaults is still substantially higher than it was beginning in 1980 (Puzzanchera, 2009). Drug offense arrests have mirrored closely that of simple assaults, the main...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics Juan Ramirez CJA/374 April 15, 2012 Jerry Kilgo Abstract In this paper I will address juvenile crime statistics, from the Juvenile Justice Bulletin show a growing trend, in that juvenile crime actually appears to be declining according to the Juvenile Arrests 2001 Report. Even though there is a decline in juvenile offenses but the juvenile drugs and juvenile aggravated assault has increased. About 50% of the juvenile crimes be committed by female juveniles. Also I will be covering Minority and female juveniles and the tracking the juvenile crimes. Juvenile Arrests Juvenile crime has been an issue throughout the 1800s. Dealing with juvenile crime committed and examine the juvenile arrests, and criminal activity, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention a study of juvenile arrest statistics (FindLaw, 2011). In Juvenile Justice Bulletin there was a decrease in arrest in juveniles. According, to the Juvenile Justice Bulletin it shows that it was the lowest since 1988 of juvenile arrests being arrested (Flores, 2003). In 1994 juveniles peaked over and also in 1995 and around 2001 juveniles being arrested dropped. In Juvenile Justice Bulletin it breaks down the juvenile crimes committed from aggravated assaults committed by juveniles. It was lower 2001 and down in 1991 but aggravated assaults were lower in 2001 than any other year from 1991. Juveniles that committed murders were low from 1984. Robberies...
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... Juvenile Crime Statistics CJA/374 Juvenile Crime Statistics Juvenile offenders are classified as any person between the age of seven and 18, and who have not attained their eighteenth birthday (Champion, 2010). This paper will show the issues of juvenile’s crimes and arrests that took place in 2008. The purpose is to show a trend over the years of criminal activities so that there may be a better understanding to help combat the issues that law enforcement deal with daily in the department. In 2008, law enforcement agencies in United States made an estimated 2.11 million arrests of persons younger than age 18 (Slowikowski, 2009). The arrest rate of juveniles did in fact decrease three percent from the previous year. Overall, the juvenile arrests have declined also from 2006-2008 from the highest point in 2004. How the FBI decides and assesses these trends is used or broken down into a few different categories. They are aggravated assault, robbery or larceny, rape, manslaughter, and murder. Overall the last ten years from 1988 to 208 there has been a steady decline in the six different categories, more for juveniles, than adults. For other crimes, such as vehicle theft, burglary, larceny, and arson, even though they are still below the average number of arrests, they have risen slightly...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper A person under the age of 18 years old is considerate a juvenile. A child or youth who commits a crime or is beyond the control of his or her parents is considerate a juvenile delinquent. This paper will summarize the juvenile crime statistics for 2008. The decrease in juvenile arrests will be discusses. Also the increase in drug offenses and simple assaults will be summarized. In addition, the increase and decrease of female, male, and minority arrests, and their implications will be of topic. Finally, the assessment of tracking juvenile arrests as a method of measuring the amount of and trends in juvenile crime will be done. Overall Decrease in Juvenile Arrests The decrease of juvenile arrests was evident in 2008. Juvenile arrests decreased by 3% from that of 2007. Violent crimes that include murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault showed a trend of declined in 2006 and 2008. In fact the rate of violent crimes decreased from 1987 to 2008. Although juvenile arrests declined to less than 10%, property crime arrests increased. According, to the Juvenile Arrests 2008 bulletin, property crimes increased between 2006 and 2008. Drug Offenses and Simple Assaults In 2008, juvenile arrests for drug offenses was of 180, 100. At 11% the arrests differ from that of the previous years. Juvenile drug offenses have increased in the last couple of years. Simple assaults decreased in 2008 to 6% of...
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...Individual Assignment; Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper CJA374 Juvenile Justice Systems and Processes Francisco Jorge Flores Sr. December 3rd, 2012 Mrs. Amy Gordon University of Phoenix Write a 700 to 1,050 word paper summarizing the key points of the “Juvenile Arrests 2008” article. Address the following; According to Puzzanchera (2009), on his Juvenile Arrests 2008, article published through the Juvenile Justice Bulletin from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, juvenile arrests during 2008 felt a minor, but significant decrease in comparison to statistics of 2007, in 2008, juvenile arrests by law enforcement agencies were estimated at 2.11 million of juveniles under the age of 18 in the whole country, this decrease can be interpreted as 3 percent less than the arrests made in 2007, this data commented by Puzzanchera has been retrieved from several law enforcement agencies throughout the country, that were reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. Another observation, according to Puzzanchera (2009), is that the Juvenile Arrests during 2008, for simple assaults continued to decline significantly up to a 10% in comparison to its peak of 1997, this rate of simple assaults in 2008 was significant substantial in comparison of those from 1980’s to 1997 that increased up 156% for the most part of racial groups involved back then. Puzzanchera (2009) also refers to how Juvenile Arrests for drug abuse in 2008, felt a considerable decrease...
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...Running head: JUVENILE CRIME STATISTICS PAPER 1 Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper CJA/374 JUVENILE CRIME STATISTICS PAPER 2 Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper Introduction Juvenile crime statistics is truly misunderstood by today’s society. The general public pushes for harsher punishment when in reality juvenile crime rate has actually decreased. This paper will summarize the “Juvenile Arrests 2008”. This paper will further discuss the overall decrease in juvenile arrests, the increase in drug offenses and simple assaults, implications for juvenile females and members of ethnic and racial minorities, an increase in juvenile female arrests and a decrease in arrests for juvenile male offenders for violent crimes, as well as what assessment are used to track juvenile arrests in order to measure the amount of juvenile crime as well as its trends. The Overall Decrease in Juvenile Arrests Overall Review Data from 2008 shows that juvenile arrests for violent crime declined between 2006 and 2008. According to Puzzanchera (2009) “In 2008 there were 2.11 million juvenile arrests, which is 16% lower than the arrests in 1999” (p.3). In 2008 juvenile arrests for forcible rape was at an all time low since 1980, aggravated assault arrests were also at its lowest since 1988. However, juvenile arrests for murder were at its low in 2004, but increased from 2005 to 2007. Further, the Property Crime Index decreased by 20%, larceny-theft by 17%, murder by 5%, motor vehicle theft by 50%...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting in 2008 there was approximately 2.11 million arrests in the United States that were juveniles. The propose for this paper is to further discuss the overall decrease among juvenile arrests, increase of drug offenses, simple assaults, and the increase of female arrests, racial minorities and decrease in male arrests regarding violent crimes. It will also address any concerns or benefits to how data is collected on crimes in the U.S. that are juvenile related. In regards to the overall arrests among juveniles has dropped since 2008. The UCR reported approximately 2.11 million arrests among juveniles alone in 2008 that has dropped by three percent and by two percent for violent crimes (Puzzanchera, 2009). Violent crimes among juveniles between 1980 and 1994 had been high and then dropped by forty-nine percent in 2004. There was a twelve percent increase over two years but it decreased by five percent in 2006-2008 according to Puzzanchera (2009). However, in 1980’s and 1993 the arrests for juveniles almost doubled, and then decreased in the years of 2000 by seventy-seven percent. These arrest were murder related; and the rate which was started in 2004 dropped by six percent in 2008 and maintained at the level of seventy-four percent lower than the high peak in 1993. Aggravated assault crimes increased in the years of 1980-1994 and then decreased a great deal through 2004 by thirty-nine percent (Puzzanchera...
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...Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics - UCR Data Online http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/ National or state crime in 2009 State Population Violent Crime rate Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter rate Forcible rape rate Robbery rate Aggravated assault rate Property crime rate Burglary rate Larceny-theft rate Motor vehicle theft rate Alabama 4708708 449.8 6.9 31.9 132.9 278.1 3772.4 1037.2 2499.9 235.3 Alaska 698473 633 3.1 73.3 93.8 462.7 2946 515 2189.2 241.8 Arizona 6595778 408.3 5.4 32 122.8 248.1 3556.5 809.8 2352.8 394 Arkansas 2889450 517.7 6.2 47.3 89.4 374.8 3773.7 1203.1 2359.3 211.2 California 36961664 472 5.3 23.6 173.4 269.7 2731.5 622.6 1665.1 443.8 Colorado 5024748 337.8 3.5 44.6 67.4 222.3 2666.2 530.4 1887.9 247.9 Connecticut 3518288 298.7 3 18.5 113.4 163.7 2335.8 428.4 1694.9 212.5 Delaware 885122 636.6 4.6 38.2 188.8 405 3349.6 783.2 2351 215.5 Florida 18537969 612.5 5.5 29.7 166.7 410.6 3840.8 981.1 2588.6 271.1 Georgia 9829211 426.1 5.8 23.4 148.6 248.3 3666.6 1000.7 2328.7 337.2 Hawaii 1295178 274.8 1.7 30.3 79.8 163 3661.2 708.6 2580.5 372.1 Idaho 1545801 228.4 1.4 35.7 15.8 175.4 1988.7 424.2 1471.1 93.3 Illinois 12910409 497.2 6 30.2 177.6 283.4 2736.9 603 1927.3 206.6 Indiana 6423113 333.2 4.8 25.5 114.5 188.4 3116.2 761.5 2138.7 216.1 Iowa 3007856 279.2 1.1 28.4 39.7 210 2308.7 539.4 1640 129.3 Kansas 2818747 400.1 4.2 38.9 63.4 293.6 3207.8 690.7 2305.9 211.2 Kentucky 4314113...
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...Introduction This Report has been written for the community of Lowville. The Lowville constabulary has recently released their yearly crime statistics. This report is aimed at showing residents that crime statistics do not necessarily report on the true level of crime experienced within a community. This report will provide an overview of how the statistics are collated by the various agencies and how they are represented to the general public. Following this, the report will set out an explanation of what the limitations to the crime statistics are and how they are represented within the media. The reader will be made aware to what the effect of changing stats at local and governmental levels and the terminology for these changes, later...
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...Juvenile Crime Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper 1 Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper Gail Rener, CJA/403 University of Phoenix Online Tamra Katcher Watts February 16, 2009 Juvenile Crime Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper This paper will be focused on juvenile crime and the juvenile crime 2 statistics. Juvenile crime, is different crimes committed by children under the age of 18. Their offenses include delinquent acts that is considered to be crimes if an adult were to commit them. Juveniles are children who truly need help before it is too late. There are different theories about what influence juveniles to commit delinquent acts the thing that influences juvenile the most is societies. The reason for this is because society labels people according to their upbringing, their environment and their lack of education. The main purpose of the juvenile justice system is to rehabilitate juveniles so that they can become a contributing member of society and not another career criminal. Now it is, time to get to the main point of this paper and talk about juvenile crime statistics . Juvenile Crime We need statistics to help measure things and in this case we need 3 statistics to help measure juvenile crime. When measuring statistics it is very important to understand exactly what statistics is all about. According to (Snyder, 2003) “the arrest statistics report the number of arrests made by law enforcement agencies in a particular year- not the number of individuals...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics Juvenile Crime statistics Paper Juvenile delinquent actions identify an individual’s participation or involvement with an illegal act deemed to be an infraction of implemented Federal, state, or municipal law. An individual under the-age-of 18 who commits an illegal act represents the categorical identification group classified under the term “Juvenile offender”. Juvenile delinquency has increased within the past 50 years. As a result of the extensive increase statistical information supporting juvenile delinquent offenses are compiled to display extensive increases and declines pertaining to delinquency within America. The overall decrease in juvenile arrests, increase in juvenile narcotics offenses, and simple assaults will be identified, dissected, and examined. The implications for juvenile female and minorities will also be thoroughly examined along with an assessment highlighting the tracking of juvenile arrests as a method of measuring the amount of, and trends within juvenile offenses. Overall Decrease: Juvenile Arrests The overall decrease in juvenile detainment for violent juvenile offenses within 2008 decreased in comparison to the statistical information projecting violent juvenile actions within the 1990s. Juvenile delinquency supporting violent offenses extensively increased throughout the 1990s within Northern America most likely as a result of the increase in gang membership...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper CJA/374 August 11, 2014 Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper Data collection has been a great tool for the criminal just system for many of years. The data that is collected can give insight on progress or area’s in which need work. Analysts within Law Enforcement Agencies will use the data to show trends and find possible new way of crime prevention. Tools such as this can make a monumental impact on the futures generation when it comes to crime prevention. For an example: Law Enforcement can look at how many Juveniles have been arrested during the last five years and compare the number to see if the changes that have been made are working. When juveniles enter in criminal behavior it is important that it is addressed immediately. Data that has been collected has shown that overall there is decrease in juvenile arrests in 2008. Decrease in Juvenile Arrests In 2008, law enforcement agencies in the United States made an estimated 2.11 million arrests of persons younger than age 18.* Overall, there were 3% fewer juvenile arrests in 2008 than in 2007 (Puzzanchera, 2009 ). The numbers that are given here come from Law Enforcement agencies that have been collected all across the nation and are not focused on specific area. The data shown that from 2007 to 2008 juveniles arrest have decreased within that reporting year, regardless of the type of crime that was committed. Within the same reporting period of 2008 there was also a 2% decrease in...
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