KIN 1600 Chapter : Module 13

• School: LSU
• Department: Kinesiology: Professional Courses/Basic Activity Courses
• Course: KIN 1600
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Violence has been part of the american landscape since colonial times; however, it wasn"t until the 1980s that the us. Public health service identified violence as a leading cause of death and disability and gave it chronic disease status, indicating that it was pervasive threat to society. Statistics from the federal bureau of investigation (fbi) have shown that, after steadily increasing from 1973 to 2006, rates of overall crime and certain types of violent crime have been decreasing over the past few years. Although violent crimes have decreased, surveys show that overall violence rates have increased in the last 2 years, particularly as identity theft, burglaries, theft, simple assaults, and other crimes have increased. Overall, homicide and violent crime rates have been trending downward for more than two decades, and both rates are at historic lows. The nation"s violent crime rate11 in 2014 was the lowest it has been since 1970, while the homicide rate was the lowest since 1960.