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The following articles appear in Demographics Magazine
They report interesting views related to the Criminal Justice System in the United States.
True Crime Summary: Seventy-nine percent of Americans think crime is one of the nation's biggest problems, but only 14 percent name crime as one of the biggest problems in their neighborhood. In 1992, the public reported 53 percent of rapes, 51 percent of robberies, 49 percent of assaults, 41 percent of household theft, and 30 percent of personal theft. The public ranked Washington, D.C., as the 4th most dangerous...
Crime Crazy Summary: When terrorists bomb the World Trade Center, serial killers murder children, and a gunman shoots up a railroad car full of commuters--all in the space of a few months--who can stay rational? The three major networks ran 1,700 news stories about crime in 1993, or about 5 stories a night. That was double the number of stories in 1992, according to the Center for Media and Public Affairs in...
Murder is All-American Summary: Different countries have different definitions of crime, different reporting procedures, and varying propensities to report crime. But in 1989, a U.N. working group overcame this problem by sponsoring an International Crime Survey. Fifteen countries took part in 1989, and 13 countries (some of them again) participated in 1992. Because the international survey asks the same questions about crime...
The Prison Population Bomb Summary: In the movies, prison guards are frequently portrayed as sadistic brutes who torment their charges. Almost one-third committed their offense under the influence of drugs, and one in six committed their offense to obtain money for drugs. All of these services require highly trained staff and sophisticated equipment, which makes prison an expensive proposition for taxpayers; the average day in...
Computers Track the Criminal's Trail Summary: "Computers Track the Criminal's Trail"by Tim Miller, research analyst, San Bernadino County Sheriff's OfficeJanuary 1994American Demographics. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's office struck back with ingenuity, hard work, and a geographic information system. Among the more than 100 break-ins, Detective Brian Alvarez noticed that 10 had similar patterns. He entered the reports into Atlas Crime...
Lies, Damned Lies... Summary: Politicians and lobbyists carefully select the numbers they use to talk about crime (it's always rampant) or immigration (it's always out of control). There are several reasons why people try to fabricate trends, and one of the most popular is the media's need to attract a big audience. A single horrible event, such as a child's abduction by a stranger, can be made into a more compelling news...
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