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New Violent Crime Statistics

By Corey Rayburnyung

Both TalkLeft and Grits have posts about the new violent crime statistics. Violent crime was down in 2007 (for the first time since 2005). One of the biggest statistical declines was in the category of "forcible rape." I'm not sure what the explanation is for the significant decline (2.5%). Grits points out the usually caveats that comes with such data:It should be mentioned that national crime data are fairly flawed. Not all information gets reported. And year to year fluctuations may not mean much or necessarily depict a long-term trend. Still, less crime reported on its face must be be considered good news.It is worth checking out the entire report on the spiffy FBI website for yourself as there is a lot of interesting stuff to look at. Talkleft points to a Justice Policy Institute factsheet that argues that the declines were largest in jurisdictions with low incarceration rates.continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on September 15, 2008 (boomark / email).