As I combed through the violent crime data for my area, I realized there is a lot of discrepancies and unreported crimes. I started to think why would there be so much unreported crimes and I realize a few things: 1) law enforcement agencies do not take it seriously to report crimes to the Uniform Crime Reports 2) many victims do not report their crimes and 3) crime reporting needs to be uniformed and mandatory. The violent crime statistics in my area are quite alarming and yet shocking.
The areas I researched for violent crimes are Merrillville, Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, Portage, Hobart, and Crown Point. These are the areas that I have some relationship to such as my living space, where I frequently visit to see friends and family members and where I catch the train at for work. According to the webpage Neighborhood Scout, Gary, Hobart, East Chicago and Hammond have the highest crime rate for my area (Neighborhood Scout, 2015). This is not surprising to me.
According the Table 10 of the FBI-UCR, Lake County, Indiana had only 38 violent crimes and 1 murder (FBI- UCR, 2013). This is impossible and proves that agencies are not
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reporting all together or not reporting in a timely fashion. I found this report to be very faulty because big counties such as Allen and Marion (Fort Wayne and Indianapolis) did not report at all. The absence of reported crimes is called dark figure of crime (Meadows, 2014, p. 4). Coupled with the dark figure of crime, one is allowed to believe that many victims are not receiving the justice they deserve.
“Victims who experienced severe distress as a result of a violent victimization were more likely to report the crime to police and receive victim services that victims with no distress or mild distress” (Langton and Truman. 2014). In other words, if a victim is not severely distress then it is more than likely the crime will not be committed. Needless to say, Gary had a total of 56 forcible rapes committed in 2012 along with Merrillville 6, East Chicago 9, and Hammond 18 (FBI-UCR Data Online, 2013). With this in mind, it is easily to be said that there were many more forcible rapes that were not reported for reasons such as fear, the relationship between the attacker and the victim, and other
reasons. All things consider, the difficulty with criminal and victim reporting is the lack of reporting by an agency or false reporting (Meadows, 2014, p.4). The methods used to gathering information is relied on by police agencies and victim self-reporting. This is not a good method because many times police agencies do not report or do not record accurate information for the purpose of tampering with statistics of the crime within their area. Victim self-reporting is faulty for other reasons such as the victim may be in denial or scared to speak. With this in mind, victims in order to heal needs counseling and help but this cannot be done if victims are not reporting.
Schoville, Chuck, Brian Novotny and Andrew Eways. Bureau of Justice Assistance. "Surenos 2008 Special Gang Report." . Rocky Mountain Information Network, 2008.
homicide crimes. But the area which hits the closest to home is the issue of
Why are some neighborhoods more prone to experience violent episodes than others? What is the extent and in what sociologically measurable ways do communities contribute to the causation and prevention of crime in their neighborhoods? Are neighborhood-level predictors adequate to explain differences in violent crime rates in the respective communities? These are some of the questions addressed by this statistically intense paper published in Science 1997, by Sampson, Raudenbush and Earls.
Detroit has the highest crime rate in the U.S. In Detroit nearly 14 children per day are victims of crime. Also, the average juvenile age is 13. Mainly all these crime come from juvenile assault. According to Detroit Free Press Michael said “When he was younger he used to hang with his cousin. While he was with them they used to rob things.”. Another, 33,000 juvenile cases
...). Today, the violent crime rate Kennesaw, Georgia is still 85% lower than Georgia’s or the national average (www.cityrating.com) & (FBI Report of Offenses Known to Law Enforcement).
18, 059 violent felonies, 690 deaths, and 13,000 hard-core killers. What is the horrible cause of these striking statistics? Gangs. Gangs are a problem in nearly every state and 83 percent of the largest cities in the United States. The problem of gangs and their negative impact on the communities they exist in continues to grow and nothing seems to be able to stop this powerful growth. Gangs not only exist in just inner cities anymore, but in towns and suburban communities as well. Gangs are affecting more and more children everyday, and this problem needs to be stopped.
The Uniform Crime Report also allows us to geographically see crimes spread over the United States. Where certain crimes are committed, who is committing them, and when they are most likely committed. These trends allow for federal and local law enforcement to predict where patrolling may need to be more prevalent or allow criminal profilers to be able to speculate what type of person is a possible suspect for a certa...
So why do these cities also have the highest crime rates? And why are the crime rates dropping considerably in states like Florida where gun ownership is encouraged?
violent crimes do not involve guns as often as many people believe. According to the FBI
Violent crimes are rare. For every 1,000 people, there is less than one percent of crime. There is also a two percent instance of property crimes in Apex, per 1,000 people.
“AHHHHhhhhh!” I let out a girlish scream and squirmed as shivers went strait up my spine. I was glued to the latest episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, a show that I have watched religiously since its debut. Criminology is something that has always fascinated me, and is a career that I hope to pursue in the future as an FBI agent. I frequently surf the web looking for short stories to read about different criminal cases and to find information about job opportunities and internships. One day I found a website of an organization that studied crime independently of the government. I was immediately intrigued by the organization, and began reading about the American Society of Criminology.
Sexual assault is an offense that plagues many U.S. citizens. Although some studies show that rape is on the decline, other studies report that the phenomena actually occuring is that less rape victims are reporting the crime. In fact, approximately 68% of sexual assaults go unreported to the police according to the U.S. Department of Justice in a National Crime Victimization Survey from 2008-2012. It is common knowledge that rape victims are usually severely traumatized after the event, which leaves them susceptible to various emotions such as shame, anxiety, numbness, fear, denial, and guilt. Because of this, many rape victims decide to repress their experience and let it go unheard. However, not only does this prevent them from healing emotionally,
Index crimes in 1990 were taking our nation by storm. By far the most widely found index crime was aggravated assault. The UCR shows that for aggravated assault in the U.S. in 1990 there was over 751,407 cases of aggravated assault reported, but there were also more that the UCR didn’t pick (UCR, 23, 1990) up. On the other hand the NCVS in 1990 reported that there was nearly half more then that of the UCR, 901,039 were in fact accounted for according to the NCVS (NCVS, 1, 1990).
The uniform crime reporting system is a statistical reporting program run by the federal bureau of investigation: criminal justice information services division (CJIS). The uniform crime reporting system is done annually. The crimes normally reported are non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, larceny theft, motor vehicle theft and arson. These crimes are considered violent by both their nature and volume of crimes committed. Not all crimes are reported. The “lesser crimes” are discounted in the view of the federal bureau of investigation. Emphasize is put on violent crimes. The uniform crime reporting system function is to report an annual summation of the incidence and rate of reported crime. This helps to give a picture on what kinds