The Crime Conundrum; Policing is tougher, jails fuller, and crime is at a...

The Washington Post;  January 16, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Why is crime down in America? The drop in crime is one of the great successes of the 1990s, every bit as welcome...unforeseen and important as the skyrocketing stock market. Serious crime has fallen for more than seven years in a row, to the lowest...

crime

Dictionary of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ...crime The violation of laws, or more precisely those social norms...state control and legal sanctions reliant on punishment. Crime is thus distinct from deviance , which describes any violation...subject to societal or group disapproval. The definition of crime consequently plays a strong role in social ...

Why the drop in crime? Part 1: Measuring crime

TELEMASP Bulletin;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Crime Rates in the 1990s In the United States, we now find ourselves in the midst of a historically unprecedented drop in crime rates. For several years, virtually every type of crime has decreased. Granted, there is some unevenness. While crime is dropping precipitously in most...

How not to think about crime in the media.

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Dramatizations of crime and punishment in the popular media continue...anxiety. Journalistic and fictional images of crime and control, where they come from, and...in this area. I review the literature on crime and the media and offer a series of guidelines...

CRIME COSTS SCOTS BUSINESSES GBP 700M

Evening News - Scotland;  November 15, 1999 ;     446 words ...CRIME is costing Scottish business almost GBP 700 million each...report today. Nearly two thirds of companies fell victim to crime during 1998, with each reporting an average of nine incidents...services, car sellers and petrol stations are most likely crime targets. Postal and telecommunications services ...

Crime blocks investment to South Africa

Xinhua News Agency;  December 29, 2005 ;     636 words ...Crime blocks investment to South Africa JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Crime is a major deterrent to investment and job creation - yet...incredulous response of the government to growing evidence" that crime was interfering with the country's growth. McCarthy, senior...

Development and crime: experts say the two go hand-in-hand

The Mississippi Business Journal;  April 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Crime: it has been called a "nonissue" in Madison County by Madison...that, at least for economic development in Rankin County, crime has not been a problem," Troxler said. Duane O'Neill, president of the MetroJackson Chamber of Commerce, acknowledged the crime problems in suburban Jackson might not be as ...

Development and crime: Experts say the two go hand-in-hand. (Focus:...

Mississippi Business Journal;  April 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Crime: it has been called a non-issue in Madison County by Madison...that, at least for economic development in Rankin County, crime has not been a problem, Troxler said. Duane O'Neill, president of the MetroJackson Chamber of Commerce, acknowledged the crime problems in suburban Jackson might not be as ...

CRIME PAYS AS AN ISSUE FOR GOP REPUBLICANS TALK TOUGH WHILE DEMOCRATS...

The Boston Globe;  May 21, 1989 ;     700+ words ...Although crime can strike anywhere and is essentially apolitical, the politics of crime are complex, and getting even more so. One indication...responded not only to the growing national anxiety over crime but also to a Republican opportunity. Fear of crime...

Crime Time: The Fear, The Facts; How the Sensationalism Got Ahead of the...

The Washington Post;  January 30, 1994 ;     700+ words ...CRIME'S HOT. Helped along by the news media and a conjunction of tragic incidents, public concern about crime has risen in the polls from one of many American worries...cause for pause when listening to all this tough talk about crime. Inconveniently for those poised to demagogue, the available...

Breaking the back of crime.

New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand);  April 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Crime is soaring, right? Well actually no, says Pat Mayhew, an...offending. Contrary to popular belief, the criminologist says crime in most Westernised countries, including New Zealand, is falling. In fact, over the past 15 years or so crime has taken quite a plunge. In New Zealand, for example, police...

Crime stats responses show a divided nation, says Sutcliffe.(News)

Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  October 8, 2006 ;     579 words ...Crime is one of the major problems that as a society we have to...But the responses on the release of the annual reported crime statistics show that we remain a very divided society. While...to compare what was happening across cities (I never said crime had decreased by 164%), none of the readers' ...

Crime and rhetoric

American Journal of Criminal Law;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...MAKING CRIME PAY: LAW AND ORDER IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POLITICS...election on a platform that included a get tough on crime plank. Since the early 1960s, politicians have been using crime by taking tough stands on the need for increased punishment...

Leading Article: Now it is time to get tough on the causes of crime, Mr...

The Independent - London;  January 19, 2000 ;     529 words ...CRIME STATISTICS are always a tangle of confusion. Always have...has changed. The reactions to the publication of the latest crime figures yesterday had something for everybody. Some thought...stop and search policy has done anything to increase violent crime. Police have implied the Macpherson report into ...

Crime in Canada and in the United States: A comparative analysis

The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Crime in Canada and in the United States: A Comparative Analysis...researchers have undertaken the comparison of American and Canadian crime rates. Among them, Lipset (1990) and Hagan (1991) have shown...border than in Canada. Using infra-national disaggregated crime rates, this article shows that ...