For the crime of robbery Albany, GA had the higher rate according to the 2010 Uniformed Crime Report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. According to the UCR there were 203 robberies in the city of Albany and 219 reported. That is compared to 112 robberies and 116 reported in Abilene. Both metropolitan areas are just about the same population wise, however one area has more robberies that the other. The crime rate for robberies in Albany in 2010 was 105.1 per 100,000 people.
Gabrielle Wheat Jan 2012 SOS-304-GS WA2 1. (a) Describe the essence of the process by which a pharmaceutical company and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) function in the development of a new medication, showing understanding of conflicts of interest that sometimes occur. (b) Describe the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970. Include the criteria for listing a drug as a Schedule 1 – Schedule V controlled substance and give some examples of drugs that are in the Schedule 1 – Schedule V. (c) Describe the major elements of recent federal approaches to the enforcement of our drug laws, and indicate some of the enormous difficulties and apparently positive consequences associated with those approaches. 1A.
A study was done by the DEA in 2004 in which 19.1 million Americans aged 12 or older used illicit drugs in the 30 days prior to the study. A whopping 14.6 million of those people had used Marijuana, making it the most commonly used in
A startling 293 murders were reported in 2010 in Los Angeles and 32 murders for Long Beach and yet it is even more shocking to know there are far more forcible rapes that occur in both of these areas. I would think that population size, diversity and other environmental factors have something to do with the differences in these numbers. The murder rate seems to have decreased while forcible rape increased in both cities, with an additional 630 incidents in Los Angeles and an additional 102 incidents in Long Beach. On the other hand, for the past several years, crime rates have dropped continually. The Los Angeles Police Department reported in 2008 that
Over the past year the rate of robberies has increased by more than 1,000. Philadelphia has a poverty rate of 25% percent, which is currently the highest percentage in the United States. Philadelphia developing] a large population and high poverty rate robbery higher than that of Baltimore. Baltimore having a population of 639,919 is a metropolitan area that is located in the state of Maryland. The city of Baltimore has had 3,336 robberies in 2010 .
Juveniles were responsible for 16% of the violent crimes and 26% of all the property crimes that were on record throughout the United States. The statistic report shows that the arrest rate for juveniles who were charged with murder is at a rate of 3.8 per 100, 000 juveniles that were arrested in 2008.” The increase in drug offenses and simple assaults According to "Juvenile Justice Bulletin" (2008), “The report lists statistics for the juvenile drug abuse violations in 1994, 2007, and 2008. During the different years listed, the drug abuse violations continue to decrease. The report shows that the drug abuse violations resulted in 180,100 juvenile arrests.” “Simple assaults included in the chart were at zero reported; however, looking under the other assaults in the report there were 18% of the arrests reported to be
Since the mid-1950s, suicide rates around the world have risen by 60%. Rates among young people have risen even faster, to the point where they are now the age group at highest risk in 35% of the world’s countries. The specific demographics, however, vary from country to country. China’s pattern, for example, is very different from that of most other countries. China has a suicide mortality rate of 23:100,000, with a total of 287,000 deaths by suicide each year.
They reported that crime arrests increased between 1987 and 1994. Juvenile crimes, such as theft, simple assault, drug abuse, and disorderly conduct account for nearly half of all youth arrests with the leading cause of youth arrests in theft (Lawyer Shop, 2008). Drug abuse violations arrests have increased since 1990. In 1990, they represented 6.0 percent of all arrest and 7.7 percent of Part II offense arrests (PCCD, 2012). In 2010, drug abuse violations comprised 12.2 percent of all arrests and 14.9 percent of all Part II offense arrests (PCCD, 2012).
States held an estimated 250,900 drug offenders in 2003. That means it costs states approximately $16,948,295 per day to imprison drug offenders, or $6.1 Billion per year. (American) The French organization OGD points out the deeper economic impact from the eventual release of American drug felons: according to some estimates some 3.5 million prisoners will be released between now and 2010, and an additional 500,000 each year thereafter. “Such a large-scale release of unskilled people - most of them cannot even read and write - will have a negative impact on wages, which are already low in deprived urban areas, due to a massive influx of men desperate to get a job; especially, since the reform of the welfare system in 1996 severely reduced felons’ access to welfare money.
Two hundred and fifty thousand juveniles are tried and sentenced for their crimes as adults every year in the United States. It would seem that courtrooms are taking these juvenile cases with the significance they deserve but with only half of the average yearly rate of juvenile arrests being tried in an adult courtroom, questions about how seriously public safety has come into consideration in the United States. Juveniles who commit violent crimes should always be tried as adults in the courtroom. These numbers have had an extensive impact in the United State’s juvenile judicial system. Semple and Woody (2011) stated that with a rise of violent crimes committed by juveniles, 49 out of the 50 states transferred their juvenile offenders