- “We can have as much or as little crime as we please; depending on what we choose to count as criminal.” - Herbert Packer (Criminologist)
- 2012 murder rate was 4.7 homicides for every 100,000 U.S. residents.
- Generally, murder rates (and agg. assault) peak in the warmest months (agg. assault is lowest in winter - murder?)
- Research:
- Tracy Siska, executive director at the Chicago Justice Project
- Roger Humber, director of the Criminal Justice department at South University — Montgomery
- PT 2 Offenses - https://media.pearsoncmg.com/ph/chet/chet_mycjlab_2/cjtoday13/learning_module_images/ch2/table2.1.png
- NCVS - dark figure of crime - UCR/NIBRS' margin of error? - Self-reports
- Hate Crimes - on FBI.gov: https://media.pearsoncmg.com/ph/chet/chet_mycjlab_2/cjtoday13/learning_module_images/ch2/fig2.7.jpg
- 2011 - 6,222 HCs reported by police agencies - want to see margin of error on that one
- Most S.O. HCs committed against believed-gay men
- Corporate/WC Crime - Bernard “Bernie" Madoff, a former chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, pleaded guilty to 11 felony counts, including securities fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and perjury. He was sentenced to 110/150 years in prison.
- “Wall Street’s biggest fraud”
- Convicted by a federal trial jury in 2012 of 13 out of 14 counts of financial fraud for his involvement in an illegal investment scheme that cost nearly 30,000 investors in 113 countries $7 billion
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