World-wide crime rises and falls at the same time. Why? Crime Statistics
Crime in America.Net British Crime Survey: The figures were backed by the British Crime Survey, made up with tens of thousands of interviews. The survey found the risk of becoming a victim of crime...
View ArticleCrime Victim Rights: Crime in America.Net
You have the right not to be silent. Most states have rights built into their constitutions to assist you when you become a victim of crime. But we’ll let you in on a secret; many of us in the criminal...
View ArticleMost Stolen Cars List Added to City Crime Rates-Top Ten Cities List-Crime in...
Crime in America.Net includes research on crime rates for American cities and states, commonly known as the top ten cities, the most dangerous cities or as Forbes puts it, “The Most Miserable Cities.”...
View ArticleMost Dangerous Cities–City and State Crime Rates–Pleasing Everyone is Hard to Do
Updated with five new sources, November, 2010. We started Crime in America.Net for a variety of reasons from learning search engine marketing to providing material to our students. One of the lessons...
View ArticleSo Who Killed Neighborhood Watch? Crime in America.Net
None of us are sure, but it seems to us that it was decades ago that a US Department of Justice agency produced a neighborhood watch manual. See the latest version at:...
View ArticleRural States Have Highest Rates for Teenage Rape: Crime in America.Net
Information released by the Centers for Disease Control-High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey indicates the following: Nationally, 10.5 percent of girls and 4.5 percent of boys state that they were...
View ArticleNevada, Vermont, Alabama, North Carolina and Tennessee Rank Highest for Men...
Dear Readers: “When Men Murder Women” is a significant contribution to the understanding of domestic and intimate partner violence if you can get beyond the anti-gun rants of the Violence Policy...
View Article28 percent of burglaries involve people at home: good doors-windows prevent...
Crime in America.Net An estimated 3.7 million household burglaries occurred each year on average from 2003 to 2007. In about 28% of these burglaries, a household member was present during the burglary....
View ArticleViolent Crime Rate for Disabled Double the National Average
Crime in America.Net Two of us are former police officers and we are not surprised that people with disabilities have a violent crime rate that is double the national average. People with disabilities...
View ArticleWhat are my chances of being a victim of violent crime?
Crime in America.Net We have a reader’s question as to the probability of violent crime victimization (in this case, a female college student) . She asked if different groups of people are victimized...
View Article1 in 11 youth Internet users received a sexual solicitation
In 2010 approximately 1 in 11 youth Internet users (9%) received an unwanted sexual solicitation in the past year.
View ArticleSix Million Violent Crimes in 2013-Crime Down
46 percent of violent crimes reported to police. The overall violent crime rate declined slightly from 26.1 to 23.2 victimizations per 1,000 U.S. residents from 2012 to 2013, per the Justice...
View ArticleThe Devastating Impact of Violent Crime on Victims
More than two-thirds (68 percent) of serious violent crime victims experienced socio-emotional problems as a result of the victimization per the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)....
View ArticleThe Poor Have Double the Rate of Violent Crime
Persons in poor households at or below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) (39.8 per 1,000) had more than double the rate of violent victimization as persons in high-income households (16.9 per 1,000) for...
View ArticleCollege students experience lower rates of sexual assault-80% know their...
Among college-age females (ages 18 to 24), the rate of rape and sexual assault was 1.2 times higher for nonstudents than students for the period 1995–2013, per the Bureau of Justice Statistics....
View ArticleMost crime occurs at home, roads, parking lots, schools and bars per FBI/NIBRS
The FBI released details on more than 5.6 million criminal offenses reported via the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) in 2013. The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s latest report,...
View ArticleTeenage Dating Violence Data Indicates Success
Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh have published an article that provides the first evidence of the potential benefits of provider-delivered education and a brief counseling...
View ArticleDo child victims of sexual abuse become sex offenders?
In JAMA Pediatrics, NIJ-funded researcher Dr. Cathy Widom discusses findings of a longitudinal study following 908 abused and neglected children and a matched control group into middle age. The study...
View ArticleCrime in America Decreases in 2014
For a comprehensive overview of crime in the Unites States, see http://www.crimeinamerica.net/crime-rates-united-states/ For a comprehensive analysis of crime in cities and states, see...
View ArticleOne child in every 25 in the United States is abused or neglected
The fourth cycle of the National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect collected data in 2005–2006. The National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS) reports information on children...
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