Crimes of Violence: A Staff Report Submitted to the National Commission on the Causes & Prevention of Violence, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 - 1597 pages |
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17 cities surveyed 1967 In percent according to total add up exactly age group agencies aggravated assault areas armed arrest volumes burglary child abuse cohort Column figures computed crimes for 1967 criminal homicide Delinquency estimates firearms Force Victim-Offender Survey forcible rape four major violent Frequencies weighted according higher Ibid Impact-An Assessment Index crimes involved juvenile levels and trends major violent crimes negligent manslaughter Negro males nonnegligent manslaughter NORC North Central number of known offense rates organized crime percentage police preliminary data primary group proportion race and sex region reported arrest rate reported urban reported violent crimes rural social Source suicide rates Table Task Force Report Task Force Victim-Offender Total number total reported violent total U.S. population true rates U.S. Census unarmed robbery Uniform Crime Reports Unknown Variation in reported victim and offender victim precipitation victim-offender interactions violent auto fatalities violent crimes combined Wolfgang
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Page 411 - In general, do you think the courts in this area deal too harshly or not harshly enough with criminals?
Page 27 - Thorsten Sellin and Marvin E. Wolfgang, The Measurement of Delinquency (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1964).
Page 11 - Aggravated assault — Assault with intent to kill or for the purpose of inflicting severe bodily injury by shooting, cutting, stabbing, maiming, poisoning, scalding, or by the use of acids, explosives, or other means. Excludes simple assaults.
Page 409 - Is there any area right around here—that is, within a mile—where you would be afraid to walk alone at night?
Page 10 - At school, they are the last to be educated. At work, they are the last to be hired and the first to be fired.
Page 3 - If present trends are not positively redirected by creative new action, we can expect further social fragmentation of the urban environment, formation of excessively parochial communities, greater segregation of different racial groups and economic classes . . . and polarization of attitudes on a variety of issues. It is logical to expect the establishment of the "defensive city...
Page 15 - crimes." The realist view, at the same time, held that even police statistics distort the "real crime problem." An "index" of "crime," therefore, was devised that would provide a measure of the "crime problem" least subject to effects of jurisdiction. The UCR annual report states the case: Not all crimes come readily to the attention of the police; not all crimes are of sufficient importance to be significant in an index; and not all important crimes occur with enough regularity to be meaningful...
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Page 11 - Most people admit to relatively petty delinquent acts, but many report larcenies, auto thefts, burglaries, and assaults of a more serious nature. One of the few studies of this type dealing with criminal behavior by adults was of a sample of almost 1,700 persons, most of them from the State of New York.