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LAW105|75 , weeks 1 & × ucture.com/courses/2250375/discussion topics/13307763?module item_id 33276394 iscussions >DQ 2 due Jan 259 This is a graded discussion: 2 points possible DQ 2 Using the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook), answer 20 21 the following discussion question: "1s fear of crime increasing or decreasing, and what are the implications on criminal justice policy?" Also, indicate the extent to which fear and perceptions of the criminal justice system vary by race, age and education - give some reasons as to why these demographic differences exist. See Weeks 1 & 2 Overview for details. Unread subscribe HTML Editor Paragraph," '" Based off of SourceBook, and the tables that were provided, as well as Lecture 3, the fear of crime is increasing over the last couple years As it was stated ih Lecture 3 these differences

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Fear of Crime . Increasing or decreasing

According to Americans the crime rate has increased in the recent years . Voilent criminal cases have been recordedly increasing and they fear that it may always increase as the years pass . They are paranoid about certain crimes like drugs , Environments and parenting styles in which a child is bought up and negligence towards Academics etc. America has the highest crime rates ,Even more than some rich countries like European counties , Japan or Canada .

. An American'crime rate was relatively low in the 1950s and early 1960s. It doubled between 1964 and 1974, remained high from 1974 to 1980, declined between 1980 and 1985, and angain increased in 1980s. In 1989 the murder rate was higher than it had been from 1983 to 1988, lower than it had been from 1972 to 1982, and higher than it had been from 1950 to 1972.

Hence the crime rate in USA has been increasing in the recent years .

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