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FOCUSING ON BURGLARIES Burglaries are the most common of all serious crimes tracked by the FBI. Larcenies, which are thefts of all kinds, are more numerous, but more than half were just petty larcenies resulting in minor losses. Burglaries of residences resulted in substantial losses, averaging over $2,100 in 2013, according to the UCR (FBI, […]

Carjacked Drivers In the movies, as well as in real life, motorists are yanked out of their cars and trucks by highwaymen who hop in behind the wheel and make a quick getaway. In the early 1990s, the catchy term carjacking was coined to describe the robbery of a motor vehicle directly from a driver,

Differential Risks: Which Groups Get Robbed the Most and the Least Often? To discover patterns in robberies, researchers must sort through data collected each year about various groupings of people and households that participated in the NCVS survey. According to the NCVS for 2013, the robbery rate was 2.4 per 1,000. That means just about

Checking Out Whether More Robberies Are Turning into Murders One bit of good news about robbery is often over- looked: Most victims are not injured, and of those who are, most don’t need medical attention in an emergency room. And yet, because robbery is such a potentially devastating crime, a troubling question ought to arise:

Changes over Time in Robbery Rates Robbery is often cited as the offense most people worry about when they express their fears about street crime. Robbery is a confrontational crime in which force is used, or violence is threatened (…“or else”). Figure 4.3 displays the trends in rob- bery rates according to UCR and NCVS

Robbers and the People They Prey Upon Completed robberies are face-to-face confrontations in which perpetrators take something of value directly from victims against their will, either by force or by threats of violence. Whether the holdup is completed or just attempted, the law considers armed robberies more serious than unarmed ones (strong-arm robberies, muggings, or

FOCUSING ON ROBBERIES Robbers are usually complete strangers on the prowl for suitable prey. Therefore, they are among the most feared and hated of all street criminals. The offense combines stealing with extortion or outright violence NCVSVSV UCRCRC F I G U R E 4.2 Trends in Aggravated Assaults, United States, 1973–2013 © 20 16

A Statistical Picture of Murders in the United States, 1980–2008 An analysis of a massive database of hundreds of thousands of SHRs containing details about homicides committed over a span of 28 years established that the perpetrators and their victims were not a representative cross-section of all Americans. On the contrary, murderers and the people

Changes over Time in Near Death Experiences: Trends in Aggravated Assault Rates Murder and robbery are the two violent crimes that are the main focus of this chapter, but at this point a look at trends in aggravated assaults also would be A CL OSE R LOOK AT T H E V I C T

2013 are consistent with the patterns that prevailed over almost three decades. From this review of the demographic factors that are correlated with murder rates, a profile can be drawn indicating which groups of people run the greatest risks of suddenly dying from an act of vio- lence. They are Southerners, urban residents, males, teenagers,