CRIM 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Internetworking
13 Sep 2016
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Perceptions of crime trends; the media and fear of crime. Media has an incredible impact since most of us are not ever going to directly experience serious crime. General trend is an increase until early 90"s and then decrease up to 2014. There is no one good way to measure crime. 1960: ~200 violent crimes/100k residents, 2014: ~300. Aggravated assault/100k residents: 1960: ~100, 2014: ~225. Property crimes: 1960: ~2000, 2014: ~6000. Auto theft: 1960: ~200, 2014: ~200. Major question: did a widely reported youth violence epidemic in the mid 1990"s really happen? (if so, what did it really mean?) Zimring uses data on youth arrests over time to investigate. What does he conclude from these trends: no uniform patterns or stable trends. Only homicides by guns increase (which is actually the least savage of all murder styles) Why are predictions about the future of youth violence problematic: youth violence changes so much that it is virtually unpredictable.
