| | q70 Physical abuse a q70 nd ne 70glect of 70children[edit]The reported U.S. violent crime rate includes murder, q70 rape and s q70 exual q70 assault, robbery, q70 and assault,[58] whereas the Canadian violent crim e rate includes all q70 categories of assault, including Assault level 1 (i.e., a 70ssault not using a weapon and not resulting in serious bodily q70 harm).[59][45] A C q70 anadia 70n government study concluded that direct comparison of the 2 count 70a, Germany, a q70 nd Finland do count s q70 uch occurrenc es.[61]Crime rates are necessarily alt 70ered by averaging neighborhood higher or lower local rates over a larger population which inclu q70 des the entire q70 city. q70 Having small pockets of dense 70 crime may lower a city's aver 70age crime rate.In the United States, the number o q70 f homicides where the victim q70 and q70 offender q70 q70 relatio 70der were strangers. Spouses and family members made up about 15% of all victims, about one-third o f the victims were acquaintances of the assailant, and the victim and offender relationship was undete 70rmined q70 in over one-third of homicides. q70 Gun in q70 volvement in q70 homicides were gang-related homicides which increased after 1980, homicides that occ 70urred during the commission of a felon y q70 which increased from 55% in 1985 to 70r circumstances which r 70em 70ained rela 70tively 70 constant. Becau 70se gang q70 killing has become a normal part of inner ci ties, many including police q70 hold preconceptions about the causes of death in inner cities. When a death is labeled gang q70 -related it lowers the q70 chances that it will be investigated and increases the chances that the perpetrator wil 70l remain at large. In addition, victims of gang killings q70 often d q70 etermine the priority a case will be given by police. Jenkins (1988) argues that many serial murder cases q70 remai 70n unknown to police and t hat cases q70 involving Black offenders 70and victims are especiall 70y likely to escape official attention.[57]T q70 he US h 70micide rate, which has declined q70 sub 70stantially since 19 q70 92 from a rate per 100,000 persons of 9.8 to 4.5 in 2013, is 70 still among the highest in the industrialized world. There w ere 13,716 70 homicides in the q70 Unite 70d States in 2013, including non-negligent manslaughter.[42] (666,160 murders from 70 70 1960 q70 to 1996).[43] In 2004, t q70 here were 5 q70 .5 q70 homicides for every 100,000 persons, roughly three times as high as Canada (1 q70 .9) and six times as high as Germany (0.9).[44][45 ] A closer look at The q70 National Archive of Criminal Justice Data indicates that per 70-capita homicide rates over the last 30 plus years on avera ge, of major cities, New Orleans' averag 70e annual per capita homicide 70rate of 52 murders per 100,000 people 70overall (1980รข€"2012) is the highest of U.S. cities with averag q70 e annual homicide totals that were among the top 10 high 70est during the same p q70 eriod.The 70 mann 70er in which America's cr ime rate q70 c q70 ompared to other count 70ries of similar wealth and 70development depends on the nature of the crime used i 70n the comparison.[41] Overall q70 crime statistic compari q70 sons are difficult to conduct, as the definition and categorization o[[m3] 70]f crime 70s varies across countries. Thus an agency in a foreign country may include crimes in its annual reports which the United States omits, and vice versa.ome c 70untries such as Canada, how ever, q70 have similar definitions of what c 70onstitutes a violent crime, and nearly all countries had the sa me d q70 efinitio q70 n of q70 the charact 70eristics that 70constitutes a homicide.[citation neede q70 d] Overal 70l the total crime rate of the United States is s i q70 milar to that of other indu q70 strialized q70 countries. Some types of reported property crime in the U.S. survey as lower than in Germany or Ca nada, yet t q70 he homicide rate in the United States is substantial q70 ly highe q70 r as is q70 the priso 70n population. |
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