A SOC 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Loan Shark, Insider Trading, Embezzlement
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Every 22. 4 seconds a violent crime occurs: one murder every 31 minutes, one rape every 5. 8 minutes, one robbery every 1. 2 minutes. Every 3. 2 seconds a poverty crime occurs: one burglary every 14. 5 seconds, one larceny-theft every 4. 8 seconds, one gta every 28. 8 seconds. Americans regard crime as a serious social problem and spend heavily to control crime. Crime in the us, which had been declining, has started to increase again. According to the doj in the 2011 report, the estimated number of violent crimes reported to law enforcement decreased for the 5th year in a row, but in 2012 it increased. Crime- an act, or the omission of an act, that is a violation of a federal, state, or local criminal law for which the state can apply sanctions. Crime stats attempt to provide statistical measures of the crime in societies. Crime rate- is the number of crimes committed per 100,000 people.
