...Affect Property Crime Rates I have analyzed the data of the factors that affect property crime rates in the United States. Here are my results. Data The data provided included; crime rate per hundred thousand inhabitants (which included burglary, larceny, theft, and motor vehicle theft), pincome- per capita income for each state, dropout- high school drop-out rate, precip- average precipitation in inches in the major city in each state over 1951-1980, pubaid- percentage of public aid recipients, density- population/total square miles, kids- public aid for families with children (dollars per family), unemploy- percentage of unemployed workers, urban- percentage of the residents living in urban areas. This data was provided by U.S. government sources: “the 1988 Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of Research and Statistics, Social Security Administration, the Commerce Department, Bureau of Economic Analysis, the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce and Geography Division, the Labor Department, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the National Climatic Data Center, U.S. Department of Commerce” (Bowerman, O’Connell, Orris, and Murphree). I have used a multiple regression analysis to answer the following questions: 1. What are the primary determinants of property crimes in the United States? 2. What would you like to know about property crime rates that cannot be...
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...Being the President of the United States Josh Wainwright Sociology 101: Principles of Sociology- Word Count: 2111 Abstract The purpose of this essay is to express how to address current issues in today’s society. The issues that I have to address are poverty, crime, education, health and a 5th problem of your choice. The 5th problem that I chose to address was jobs. I go about addressing these issues as if you were the President of the United States. This essay gives I a chance to express how you feel about these issues and what would you do to fix these problems. As President of the United States, it is my duty to address problems in this American society. The five main problem that I want to address are poverty, crime, education, health and jobs. These are important issues that I am working on fixing immediately. My plan is to dramatically decrease the poverty and crime rate. I am also going to improve education, health insurance and job opportunities. Poverty America’s poverty rate is too high. Let’s look back on 2013 poverty rate. According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2013, there were 45.3 million people in poverty. For the third consecutive year, the number of people...
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...Crime Trends Crime trends have changed drastically throughout the years. Criminal activity has always been a challenging task to evaluate and monitor. What is a crime trend? A crime trend is defined as a significant change in the nature of selected crime types within a defined geographical area and time period (U.S. Legal, 2001). Crime trends tend to increase and decrease for different reason throughout the years. The essay will discuss the crime trend in America and the reason for a decline in 1999. In 1999 there were several reasons that could be the cause for a decrease in crime trends. Unemployment rates were low in 1999, in fact at the time rates had not been seen as low since 1969. There was also an increase in new jobs; under President Clinton administration the economy added 245,000 jobs per month. When President Clinton took office in 1992 the unemployment rate was at 7.5%, by 1999 the rate had dropped to 4.0%. Employment showed a promising reason for a decrease in crime (The Clinton-Gore Economic Record, 2000). Throughout the years researchers have been noticing when the economy is good it seem to reduce the amount of crime that happens. In the article Crime and Unemployment, the author refers to a study conducted in the United States that showed unemployment as a reason behind higher homicide rates and suicides; the study was conducted from 1940-1984. The study included five socio economic variables unemployment rates, gross national product...
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...surrounding Baker Civic Club during the party and were contemplating whether it should be shut down early. The alleged story is teenagers at the party were involved in an altercation and one opened fire. For weeks, the suspect had not been named because he was considered a juvenile; however, sixteen year old, Nakeydran Williams, is now being tried as an adult for murder. This tragedy is the perfect example of how easy gun possession is and how extreme the outcome of a crime committed with a gun can be. What should be done about gun possession to control crime is the question at hand. Although there are people that essentially think having more guns will decrease the crime rate, a better option may be implementing stricter regulations and consequences for gun possession, possibilities may include implementing stricter background checks whenever a gun is being purchased, making the consequences for juveniles who violate curfew stronger, and making the consequences of any type of armed violation an extreme offense that may lead to life without parole. Finding an answer that will stop crime due to gun possession is nearly impossible. The situation is not an easy fix because everyone has a different viewpoint when it comes...
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...Property Crime Determinants Executive Summary There are three primary determinants that effect property crime, which are the high school dropout rate, the population density, and the percentage of people who reside in an urban area. It was found that other factors such as unemployment, public aid , and income do not significantly contribute towards the level of property crime and are actually some of the misconceptions involving crime in the United States. Introduction Perception is the way that a situation may be viewed by an individual or group through "an awareness or understanding of" that situation (Merriam-Webster online, 2010). This understanding may not always be correct. A person's understanding may be clouded by various things that actually cause a misunderstanding of the situation: such as personal factors that create a bias, incorrect or skewed data, information provided by the media, and so on. Property crime is one of these situations where perception may not always be reality. The purpose of this research is to study data that has to do with several factors that may or may not effect property crime rates in the United States. I seek to answer several questions regarding property crime rates in the United States: what are the primary determinants of property crime in the United States, what would I like to know about property crime rates that cannot be answered by the provided data, and how does population density effect property crime rates and is this...
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... According to the video, how many people are incarcerated in the United States? * According to the video, 2.4 million people are behind bars. 2. What has the crime rate in the United States done over the last 20 years? What is the percentage of the change? * In the last 20 years the crime rate has dropped by more than 40%. 3. How many of the world's population of prisoners does the United States house? * The United States has 5% of the world’s population, and 25% of the world’s prisoners. 4. How much does it cost U.S. taxpayers per year, to incarcerate prisoners? * It costs the U.S taxpayers more than 63.4 billion per year to incarcerate prisoners. 5. When did the explosion of incarceration begin? What were the reasons for the explosion? * The explosion of incarceration begin in the early 1970s. The reasons were drug use. 6. How many people are incarcerated for drug offenses? * In 1971 fewer than 40 thousand people were incarcerated, but now more than half a million are incarcerated for drug offenses. 7. What is the percentage of ex-prisoners that will be back behind bars? What is the time period? * More than 50% of ex-prisoners will be back behind bars, within 3 years. 8. What are some factors that may have contributed to the decrease in crime rates in New York? * No one can really explain exactly why it could be the change in the economy, change in drug use. One factor that will decrease the crime rate in New York is increasing...
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...Christ as women who were not married could not make a living so they had to resort to prostitution. However in today’s society, prostitution is viewed as crime more than a profession. Prostitution is illegal in forty nine out of the fifty states in the United States, with the exception of Nevada. Those who oppose prostitution believe that it is immoral, causes crime and increases sexually transmitted diseases. Most people do not realize how prostitution can benefit the United States. Legalizing prostitution will in fact reduce crime, reduce STDs, and increase revenue in the United States. With prostitution comes crime, or one would think it causes crime. However, it would reduce crime significantly. The amount of rapes in the United States would decrease as they did in Amsterdam where prostitution is legal. Kirby R. Cundiff, PhD, Associate Professor of Finance at Northeastern State University wrote, " It is estimated that if prostitution were legalized in the United States, the rape rate would decrease by roughly 25%”. In 2009, the United States had roughly ninety thousand cases of reported rapes. By simply legalizing a profession that has been around since the beginning of time, we could reduce these ninety thousand rapes in the United States by twenty five percent. Also, the amount of abuse among prostitutes would decrease. If prostitution were legal, prostitutes would not need a boss or “pimp” who typically abuse their workers. The prostitutes would be in safe, clean brothels...
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...Stricter Gun Control Laws The United States has fallen victim of crimes that heavily involves firearms and ammunitions. As a result, firearm control in the United States of America has happened to be a disputable issue over recent years, particularly in light of the late occasions of the Sandy Hook Elementary school, Northern Arizona University, Texas Southern University, and other numerous shooting incidents in American institutions. Gun control policies consist of laws and regulations that prevent citizens from owning illegal firearms (Carroll, 86). Also, the policies and regulations presented in the Gun Control Laws spreads it effects to the American citizens that manufacture, transport, possess, modify, and use any firearm. Some of the laws have very strict boundaries and limits on gun usage and possession. Some oppositions debate that the gun control policies do not provide protection to innocent civilians or the public. The pervasive gun ownership only increases the number of gun-related incidents in the United States of America. Opponents of the gun control law maintain an argument that the policies and regulations present in the gun control laws do not reduce crimes such as murder, suicide, and injuries that are related to illegal ownership of guns and ammunitions. Additionally, other oppositions argue that the regulations and policies in the gun control laws have a tendency to violate rights of individuals or citizens in the United States of America (Doeden, 96). According...
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...PREDICTING CRIME WITH THE UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING SYSTEM Predicting Crime With the Uniform Crime Reporting System Mitchell Adair Introduction to Criminal Justice: CJA 105-AUO A01 Argosy University 1 The Uniform Crime Reporting System is a statistical effort that is said to be cooperative of more than ten thousand state, city, and county law enforcement agencies on a basis that is considered to be voluntary when it comes to the reporting crime data that is brought to their attention. These agencies of the law enforcement profession covers more than eighty percent of the population of this nation.(DOJ/FBI, 2004) This said information that is produced by contributors of the Uniform Crime Reporting System is forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation directly through programs of UCR that is either state or local level of more than forty states and also D.C. State and local law enforcement agencies that directly submit to the FBI are given guidance on a continuous basis not to mention support individually. (DOJ/FBI, 2004) UCR programs that are on the level of state are links that have proven to be effective between contributors that are considered to be local and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as well. A vast amount ...
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...Prison Overcrowding in the United States First, we need to discuss the causes of prison overcrowding before we dive into potential solutions. The main obvious cause is fluctuating crime rates, the increase in the crime rates, in the United States leads more people to being locked up in prison, causing prison populations to sky rocket. Another main cause is changes to the laws, when changes are made, making the penalties higher, it causes people who might just go to jail for their crime, to end up in the prison system. Another serious issue that the United States prison system has is its return rate, with high lapses of criminals in today’s society the U.S has a 60% return rate. This rate cannot be tolerated, we as a society need to do something...
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...May 2018 Should Marijuana Be Legalized in All States for All Uses? When people hear the words “weed” or “marijuana,” they often think and say that it is bad or no good because of the events that occur when people use it. They also are aware that the drug is illegal across most of the United States of America. What most people do not understand is the positives that making marijuana legal across the nation entails. An abundance of controversial topics exist throughout today’s society, and the debate of whether or not marijuana should be legalized for all uses in all states is just one of many of them. Today, nine states and Washington D.C. have the drug legalized for all uses. However, other states only...
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...is due to higher gun related death rates and an uprise of mass killings such as the Columbine highschool massacre which left 23 injured and 15 killed (CNN Library) and the recent Las Vegas shooting which left 58 killed and nearly 500 injured (Gomez and White). Gun control activist heavily support the controlling of firearms while Gun rights activist oppose heavy regulation. Gun control activist argue arms limitation is the answer and believe...
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...Tougher gun control will not decrease the US violent crime rate It is true that guns have caused many deaths and a lot of criminal violence in the United States, tougher gun control will not decrease the US violent crime rate, but getting a real solution to crimes caused by guns will be very expensive and hard to do. So the government decides to win future votes by creating more gun control. There is no country in the world that can say that after passing stricter firearms laws that it helped reduce crime. The National Rifle Association claims guns do not kill only the people kill, but the people who want guns controlled do not believe if you carry a gun that reduces the chance of a crime being committed against you. If you think about it the NRA might be correct in this assessment. You see it is not the gun that is doing the killing, it is not the knife that kills,or the the car that kills,or a pair of scissors that kills, or a bomb that kills, what is doing the killing in the human being who is in control of these items. People are what are controlling all of these items some will say. If we do not have control over our own body than we will not have control over any kind of weapon that we have access to. I decided to write on this topic before this week events that happened. You expect to wake up to another shooting in the news but one day this week it was different. We awake to fourteen people stabbed on college campus in Houston. ...
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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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...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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