Keyword Crime: Violent Crimes

.Jakob Berglund.Ted Thimm.Gustav Bjarneby.

INTERNET SITES

http://www.amfire.com - American Firearms Industry Homepage
The official journal for the National Association of Federally Licensed
Firearms Dealers. They have firearms for sale, catalogs, articles, a
calendar of gunshows in America and a statisticsarchive with stats over
homicides 1900-1990, causes of death in the US, police deaths etc. Naturally
the site is not very objective at all since it’s AFI’s homepage. They are
very pro-guns and believe that crime decrease as the guns increase, which
can be seen in their statistics-archive.

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hatecm.htm - FBI Hate Crime Report
Hatecrime statistics in the United States 1995. Reporting by state, bias
motivation, offense category and known offender’s race.
   The site is very informative and objective (since there are almost no
text except the statistics). You get a sence of how much the crimerate
differs between the states (a complete of three reported incidents in North
Dakota and 1751 in California). Perhaps they could update the stats, the
ones printed are from 1995.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvict.htm - Bureau of justice statistics
On this site you can, as the name reveals, find statistics about crimes in
USA. There are many different statistics. Such as: What is the characteristic
for perpetrators and victims, the crime rate falling the last couple of years
and the chance of becoming a victim of several different crimes.
   We think it´s a quite good page. It may not have the greatest design but
it holds some useful information. Pages like this shouldn´t really look so
very flashy, that´s not the purpose.

http://www.nashville.net/~police/risk - Rate your risk 
This is a page with three tests. The first rates your risk of getting raped,
robbed, stabbed, shot or beaten. The second, your risk of being murdered.
And the third and last, the risk of someone breaking into your house.
   We think it´s interesting to do the tests. But if you get many points
it means you have a pretty big risk of becoming a victim. If so they
recommend you to buy a weapon and not open the door or leaving the house
without it. That´s how USA is.

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NAJCD/archive.html - NAJCD Archive - official statistics 
Here you can find many surveys about crimes in USA. Different from the
Bureau of justice page is that you can find more surveys and they range
further back in time. It´s not only from the 90´s. E.g. there is a survey
about homicides in Chicago from 1965 to 1995 and that is very good.

Http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/VIOLENT.HTM - Cities Ranked By Violent Crimes
Now this one’s interesting. This page has been put up by News Infobank
and shows American cities ranked by violent crimes. It also gives you
the percentage-change in violent crimes between 1993 and 1994. Nothing
very special with the layout though, just pretty plain.



http://www.acsp.uic.edu/oicj/pubs/cja/080407.htm - Violence in modern society
A page containing strictly text describing the development of violence
throughout modern history. The author, by the name of Paul Ruffolo,
uses a bit of a dry language. It’s overall a pretty difficult text to
read but mostly due to the fact that the page is so very dull. It
contains hardly no graphics, just plain text which makes it boring to
read if you sit in front of your computer. 

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance.htm#Crime -
Bureau of Justice Statistics Key Crime and Justice Facts at a Glance
Page containing statistics regarding violent crimes. It has been put
up by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, which is a bureau under the U.S.
Department of Justice. It has a lot of graphics, and that´s about all
there is to it. You can observe the statistics-graphics and see the
current trends in violent crimes. Problem is that it only compares the
difference between 1995 and 1996´s rate-trends.

http://www.peoriapd.com/mid97viol.htm -
1997 Mid-Year Violent Crimes, City of Peoria, IL
A homepage maintained by the City of Peoria and it shows graphics that
compares the mid-year crime rate between 1996 and 1997 in Peoria. And
that´s the problem, it only concerns the city of Peoria but we´ve
included it anyway as it perhaps gives you an idea about the rate of
violent crimes in an average American city. Nice layout which makes it
interesting to read.

http://pie.mhsc.org/DataPages/sd-018.htm -
Violent crimes in Franklin County: 1982-1995
Shows the number of violent crimes made during the period of 1982-1995
in Franklin County. Very interesting if you want to study the violent
crime development but again the problem is that it only shows one
place´s numbers. And just like the page before we included this one
as it gives you an idea about the overall violent crime trend in the
USA. The site is very plain and rather dull looking but it contains a
link some graphics showing us the numbers.

http://www.doc.state.us/charts/vioindex.htm -
Oklahoma Total Violent Index Crimes 1974 through 1996
Like the two pages mentioned above, this page concentrates on just one
place, in this case Oklahoma. It gives us graphics regarding violent
crimes been made throughout the period 1974 to 1996. We didn´t find
this type of graphics showing us the whole country of USA, so this will
have to do. And as mentioned before it should give us a clue about the
crime percentage overall. Nicely done graphics which makes it not so dull.



ARTICLE SUMMARIES

http://www.twibp.com/archives/4/14.html -
This week in Bible Prophecy: Violent Crimes by Pre-Teens Increasing
Comparing 1986 and 1992, murder increased by 2 percent in the United States,
rape 7 percent and aggravated battery 15 percent. But murders committed
by juveniles age sixteen and below increased by 96 percent, rape 14 per cent
and aggravated battery 74 percent.
   Juvenile Court Judge Charles May says that the youngsters appearing in
his courtroom some-times are so small he has to stand up just to be able
to see them.


http://racinecounty.com/stories/drop.htm -Violent crime falls 20% in city
In 1996, violent crimes in the city of Racine dropped by about 20 percent,
reaching the lowest level since 1988. Violent crimes include: murder, rape,
robbery and aggravated assault. In 1995 there were 817 casaulties. One year
later, in 1996, the number had decreased to 650.
   Police Chief Richard Polzin says he doesn’t know why the crime rate dropped.
The Community Oriented Policing programmed may be part responsible. It was a
crackdown on drugdealers earlier the same year. Other relevant factors may be
tougher sentencing, better policing, decreased drugtraffic etc.
   Through cooperation by police, neighbors, politicians and volunteers, a new
community policing outpost opened in 1996.



WORDLIST

bias    - prejudice, partial "Sixty-one percent of the incidents were motivated by
          racial bias; 16 percent by religious bias; 13 percent by sexual-oriented
          bias; and 10 percent by ethnicity/ national origin bias."

testimony - wittness evidence "This is the kind of testimony that NBC, CBS and
          ABC hope you never hear."

regulation - To have something under strict control. "For the Democratic Party
          the solution to violent crime is clear - more regulation of guns."

conceal - keep secret, hide "The benefit of concealed handguns are not limited
          to just those who carry them or use them in self-defense."

assailant - aggressor, the attacker in an assault "Survey research suggests that
          about 645,000 Americans every year use handguns for protection from
          burglars, robbers, rapists,assailants, would-be murderers, etc."

municipality - township "Courts have without exception concluded that when a
          municipality or other governmental entity undertakes to furnish police
          services, it assumes a duty only to the public at large and not to
          individual members of the community."

homicide - murder, to take someone else's life intentionaly "The evidence indicates
          that general gun availability does not measurably increase rates of
          homicide, suicide, robbery, assault, rape, or burglary in the U. S."

victimization - becoming a victim

battery - unlawful beating of another person

perpetrator - the person who committed the crime

penal system - punishment system "...Due to an increasingly liberal atitude towards
          capital punishment, coupled with a reluctance to use it, and a penal system
          far too overcrowded.."

offender - A person who breaks the law. "...We need a penal system that jails violent
          offenders and uses alternative sentencing for non violent offenders, when
          appropriate..."

aggravated - A more difficult form of something

assault - An attack on someone "...Violent crimes reported in Franklin County,
          1982-1995: Aggravated assault, forcible rape, murders, robbery..."

intervention - The stopping of a conflict. "...If the answer is more police
          intervention, then there must almost certainly be a reduction in civil
          liberties..."

firearms - Different kinds of handheld, shooting weapons. "...This is especially
          dangerous in an era like the present, when large segments of the population are
          significantly armed with firearms..."

rape - Forcible sexual intercourse. "...Rape is considered a violent crime..."

incarcerate - Put in jail. "...They who sell illegal weapons have to be incarcerated"