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Apr 3, 2019 · According to a Marshall Project survey of all 50 states’ laws, you can get charged and convicted as a violent criminal in more than a dozen states if you enter a dwelling that’s not yours. That might seem like a property crime, but it’s often deemed a violent one: burglary.
Nov 2, 2023 · According to the Rockefeller Institute of Government, urban Black women and girls are more often exposed to community violence, such as witnessing someone being shot, seeing a dead body, or even...
Sep 27, 2021 · There are better ways to respond: approaches that have proven effective in reducing extreme violence, without driving prison populations even higher. For the last half-century, America’s chief strategy for attacking violent crime has been to double down on punishment.
Oct 15, 2023 · Violent Crimes Defined by Law. Crimes defined as violent may vary by state, but they often include crimes of harm against another person like assault or battery, sexual crimes like rape, and serious property crimes like arson.
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Apr 7, 2021 · About half of the people behind bars in the United States are serving sentences for “violent” offenses, and for that reason are often ineligible, formally or as a matter of practice, for parole or...
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Violent victimization includes rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault. Despite the recent increase, the last three decades saw an overall decline in the violent victimization rate from 79.8 to 23.5 per 1,000 from 1993 to 2022.
Jun 8, 2020 · Today, the protests we see erupting in city streets across the country in response to the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and many others are symptoms of mass criminalization – of the state’s heavy-handed, race- and class-targeted violence against its civilians.
