Causation of Crime

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My original crime trend was in Virginia my new area is West Virginia. Violent crimes was pretty bad in this geographical area. In the year 2000 West Virginia had an estimated population of 1,808,344 which was the 37th in the United States. During the year of 2000 the State of West Virginia had a total Crime Index of 2,602.8 reported incidents per 100,000 people. This ranked the state as having the 47th highest total Crime Index. For Violent Crime West Virginia had a reported incident rate of 316.5 per 100,000 people. This ranked the state as having the 34th highest occurrence for Violent Crime among the states.. Also in the year 2000 West Virginia had 2.5 Murders per 100,000 people, ranking the state as having the 38th highest rate for Murder. West Virginia’s 18.3 reported Forced Rapes per 100,000 people, ranked the state 49th highest. For Robbery, per 100,000 people West Virginia’s rate was 41.4 which ranked the state as having the 41st highest for Robbery. The state also had 254.2 Aggravated Assaults for every 100,000 people, which indexed the state as having the 24th highest position for this crime among the states. Just in Virginia alone in 2007 there were 20,798 Violent crimes committed which is way more than what was committed in West Virginia. I think that the causes of violent crimes lead somewhat to drugs and alcohol, and just plainly on how mean some people are. This lets me know that crime is something that will never go away we will always have violent crimes. Sometimes there will be more in other areas but there will always be crime.

Sources:

http://bjsdata.ojp.usdoj.gov/dataonline/

http://safety.fizber.com/west-virginia/