Patterns of Offenses and Victimization
further research on patterns of offenses and victimization
For this scholarly activity, you will do further research on patterns of offenses and victimization. Research the crime rates in both your local area and in the nation.
Include responses to the following points in your scholarly activity:
- Research the murder and aggravated assault data for the past four years. Find national data as well as data in your current city or town (or nearest metropolitan area).
- Explain the national and local rates. Have they gone up or down? How do they compare? Do you see trends? To what do you attribute the differences?
- Explain the terminology/definition of each crime. How do they differ?
- Describe the characteristics of the crime, the offenders, the victims, and the event (location, weapon, and when it occurred).
- What are the differences in arrest and clearance rates?
- After learning more about these crimes, pick a theory from an earlier unit, and use it to explain the possible reasons people commit these crimes in your area.
Your scholarly activity must be a minimum of two pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages. You are required to use at least two outside sources; one source must be from the CSU Online Library. All sources used, including the textbook, must be cited and referenced.
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Introduction
Violent crimes in America such as rape, robbery murder, and aggravated assaults are frequent (Rosenfeld, 2014). Law enforcers use crime data to review the pattern of offenses and victimization in the nation or cities. Without crime statistics, it becomes difficult for agencies or government to establish patterns of offenses in the nation or a city, like San Antonio.
Statistics of murders and aggravated assaults
The presented research shows statistics of murders and aggravated assaults for the United States and City of San Antonio for the past four years, 2018 to 2015. The 2018 statistics of the violent crime for the nations are not yet released by the FBI. However, it is approximated that were 394 violent crimes per a population of 100,000 and…
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