HNRS 353 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1, 21: Homicide, Gun Control, List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate

• School: George Mason University
• Department: Honors Program in General Education
• Course: HNRS 353
• Professor: Professor Robinson

Document Summary

Question: what causes crime rates to rise and fall? (1960s spike growth of. 1983, nobody had much reliable evidence about. Whether there were many programs that actually prevented children from becoming delinquent. Whether programs claiming to rehabilitate offenders actually worked. What kind of gun control, if any, might affect the murder rate. Whether there was any way to get offenders to stop doing drugs. Property crime rates are lower than in many parts of europe. Book does not solve problem, but presents ways to think about such problems. Level of less-serious crime similar to other countries (chap. 2) We are more likely to convict for robbery, burglary as opposed to england, Scotland, etc. we are also more likely to send such offenders to prison. Rate at which we kill people without guns is still 3x higher than britain"s. Crime rates rose from early 1960s to 1980s; leveled and rose sharply from late.