Official Crime Counts Dramatically Understate US Criminality

Women Offenders-Over Half Of Violent Females Were Arrested Within 5 Years Of Release

Highlights More than half of females (55%, compared to 66% of males) who were serving time for a violent offense were arrested for another offense.…

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Mass Shootings

Recognizing Mass Shooters And Potential Attacks In Public Places-Federal Research

Highlights An overview of two recent documents on mass shootings and mass shooters from the US Secret Service and the National Institute of Justice. Both…

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How Many People Are Victimized By Crime Each Year

76% Of Female Murders Committed By Someone They Knew

Highlights Bureau Of Justice Statistics: The percentage of females murdered by an intimate partner was 5 times higher than for males. Bureau Of Justice Statistics:…

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USDOJ-States With The Highest Rates For Violent And Property Crimes-2024

Violent Victimization Increases For Urban Areas in 2021 Per USDOJ

Highlights From 2020 to 2021, the violent victimization rate increased from 19.0 to 24.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons in urban areas while remaining unchanged in…

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Females And Groups Victimized More By Crime

Highlights Some groups are victimized considerably more than others. Others have low rates of violence but have high rates of property crimes. Per the Bureau…

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Women Have Higher Or Equal Rates of Violent Criminal Victimization

Highlights Female victimization increased in recent years. It’s substantially different than historical patterns. Crime prevention programs need to be gender-specific with women and girls having…

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“It’s African American Communities That Are Bearing The Brunt Of Violence”

Highlights Violence is pounding many distressed communities and groups. Higher rates of violence and crime are affecting lower-income communities, African Americans, the elderly, Asians, Hispanics,…

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Everything You Wanted To Know About Stalking-Bureau Of Justice Statistics

Highlights An estimated 67% of victims of both traditional stalking and stalking with technology were fearful of being killed or physically harmed. Twenty-four percent of…

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Criminals Prey On The Disabled And Vulnerable

Highlights The rate of violent victimization against persons with disabilities was nearly four times the rate for persons without disabilities. But the story regarding vulnerable…

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Sending The Wrong Messages To Criminals Encourages Crime

Highlights Offenders understand that the rules governing them have softened considerably. We are telling offenders that the justice system is backing down and that their…

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Female Correctional Officers And Sexual Misconduct

Highlights 69 percent of staff sexual assault allegations with male prison inmates involve female correctional employees, Bureau Of Justice Statistics. In juvenile facilities, in most-serious…

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The Probability of Being A Victim of Violent Crime

Highlights Who has the highest risk for violent crime? What are the circumstances? Author  Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson. Thirty-five years of…

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Do Criminal Offenders Get Away With Endless Criminality?

Highlights Is the justice system oppressive or lax when it comes to holding offenders responsible for their actions? Data from the US Department of Justice…

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Offender: We Do Not Care About Ourselves Or Others

Highlights Does child abuse and neglect drive crime? “I think for a lot of us, we don’t realize how we become dangerous to other humans…

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Does “Justice Involved Person” Or “Returning Citizen” Degrade The Lives Of Crime Victims?

Highlights Calling a violent white supremacist a justice-involved person seems racist to me. Calling a sexual predator a returning citizen seems sexist. Does the #metoo…

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