U.S. state and federal prisons held an estimated 1,561,500 inmates on December 31, 2014, a decrease of 15,400 prisoners (one percent) since yearend 2013, the…
View More Most State Prisoners In For Violent CrimesCategory: Violent Offenders
Successful Programs Reducing Gun Violence and Homicides
Two Programs Rated “Promising” by CrimeSolutions.gov in Reducing Firearms-Related Homicides: “Project Exile” Crime Reduction Strategy Project Exile is a crime reduction strategy in Richmond, Virginia,…
View More Successful Programs Reducing Gun Violence and HomicidesDo 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…
View More Do child victims of sexual abuse become sex offenders?Most 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…
View More Most crime occurs at home, roads, parking lots, schools and bars per FBI/NIBRS7,000 hate crimes in 2013
The FBI released Hate Crime Statistics, 2013. The bias categories of gender (male and female) and gender identity (transgender and gender nonconforming) have been added…
View More 7,000 hate crimes in 2013College students experience lower rates of sexual assault-80% know their attacker
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…
View More College students experience lower rates of sexual assault-80% know their attackerReleased Prisoners Arrested or Returned to Incarceration
Crime in America.Net Notice: An updated version of this article is available at https://www.crimeinamerica.net/2010/09/29/percent-of-released-prisoners-returning-to-incarceration/. Updated in November of 2014. Update of a 2010 article. We have…
View More Released Prisoners Arrested or Returned to IncarcerationThe 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…
View More The Poor Have Double the Rate of Violent CrimeSix 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…
View More Six Million Violent Crimes in 2013-Crime Down42 percent of felony convictions result in a sentence to prison. 33 percent go to jail
Incarceration sentences were almost evenly divided between prison (36%) and jail (37%) in 2009. Felony convictions were more likely to result in a sentence to prison (42%) than jail (33%). Nearly all incarceration sentences for misdemeanor convictions were to jail (53%) rather than prison (3%).
View More 42 percent of felony convictions result in a sentence to prison. 33 percent go to jail