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Aug 20, 2014 · Our key finding is that, in fact, municipalities with lower inequality saw lower rates of crime. In other words, while the overall national data reveals an apparent paradox; broken down by smaller geographical regions, the paradox does not hold – less economic disparities do lead to less crime.
Well-planned crime prevention strategies not only prevent crime and victimization, but also contribute to sustainable development. Prevention is key to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 16 in terms of reducing violence, crime and injustice, as well as for creating safe and resilient cities (SDG 11) and for eliminating all form of violence ...
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Apr 2, 2024 · There are proven ways to significantly reduce violent crime within the next five years. It requires becoming not “tough on crime,” but “smart on crime” before it happens.
Feb 24, 2020 · The region has only about 0.5 percent of the world's population. But thanks mainly to increased security efforts by the region’s governments, homicide rates are down since 2015. Per 100,000 inhabitants, 2019 homicide rates fell from 108.6 to 36 in El Salvador, from 29.7 to 21.5 in Guatemala, and from 63.8 to 41.5 in Honduras.
- Crime in 2020
- Crime in 2021: Dealing with Uncertainty in National Data
- Crime in 2022: Early Indicators
- Placing Current Trends Into Historical Context
Crime rates changed dramatically across the United States in 2020. Most significantly, the murder rate — that is, the number of murders per 100,000 people — rose sharply, by nearly 30 percent. Assaults increased as well, with the rate of offenses rising by more than 10 percent. Both increases are connected to a broader surge in gun violence. More t...
In early October 2022, the FBI released its long-awaited compilation of 2021 crime data. But this data differed sharply in content and quality from previous years due to a transitionin the way the government collects crime data. Specifically, 2021 was the first year to rely exclusively on a recently updated system for tracking crime data, the Natio...
FBI data covering all of 2022 is not yet available, so it is too soon to speak with confidence about national crime trends for that year. But research by Jeff Asher, an analyst who studies crime trends, and another report by the Council on Criminal Justice, point to two positive developments: murders and gun violenceappear to have dropped in many c...
These increases in crime rates are serious on their own terms and should not be trivialized. Nationally, however, they do not return us to the high crime rates of the early 1990s. From 1991 to 2014, the national murder rate plummeted by more than 50 percent, from 9.8 to 4.4 killings per 100,000 people. By comparison, the murder rate for 2020 stood ...
Impact on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Progress towards reducing violence and crime and ensuring equal access to justice for all remains uneven. Homicide is a reasonable proxy for violent crime and a robust indicator of levels of violence within States.
New research shows that offering broad access to treatment for these problems is not only compassionate, but also a cost-effective way to reduce crime rates.
