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juvenile delinquency

(Encyclopedia) juvenile delinquency, legal term for behavior of children and adolescents that in adults would be judged criminal under law. In the United States, definitions and age limits of…

Crime

Below is a list of crime statistics in the United States, which includes total arrests, number of persons executed, hate crime and murder victims, law enforcement…

Crime Rate by State, 2006

(rate per 100,000 inhabitants) The following table shows the U.S. crime rate by state during 2006 for offenses that include violent crime, property crime, rape,…

Number of Crimes 2005–2007

Number of crimes recorded by the police in 2005/06 and 2006/07 Crime Number of crimes (thousands) % change 2005/06 2006/07 2005/06 to 2006/07 Violence againt the person (VAP)…

Crime Rate by State, 2007

(rate per 100,000 inhabitants) The following table lists the violent crime, murder, forcible rape, robbery, and property crime rate of each state in the United States…

criminology

(Encyclopedia) criminology, the study of crime, society's response to it, and its prevention, including examination of the environmental, hereditary, or psychological causes of crime, modes of…

Safest and Most Dangerous States

In general, Americans have seen a decline in crime since a peak in the late 1900s (although it sometimes seem that crime is on the rise). The violent crime rate is half what it was in the early 1990s…