Crime | Chapter 2 Preface

Crime rates from across the nation are compiled yearly in two government reports: the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports and the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Crime Victimization Survey. The FBI counts the number of crimes reported to police each year, while the BJS asks thousands of people whether they have been the victim of a crime within the past year.

While these official statistics show that rates of violent crime have decreased by some measure during the 1990s, many commentators maintain that the overall crime problem is still extremely serious. Francis Mancini, a columnist...

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