CRM/LAW C106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Homicide
29 Sep 2016
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Office hours: tuesdays, 2-4pm in 2385 social ecology 2 ecurrie@uci. edu. Crime is about real people and the death of real people, or serious injury to real people. Americans live in the most violent society among the advanced industrial societies in the world. Crime isn"t as bad today as it used to be in the past. We lost a few thousand american lives in the vietnam war. We lose roughly 15,000 lives every year in violent crimes. Over the last 20 years in the united states, around 365,000 lives have been lost to homicide. Violent crime is the steady accumulation of small tragedies; a slow emergency, not a fast emergency that suddenly happens. For every person who is a victim of homicide, there are just about 100 who wind up in a hospital emergency room because they were hurt badly enough by someone else.
