Increasing Murders but Overall Lower Crime Suggests a ...

Homicides Are Down In Brazil. But It's Not Time For A Victory Lap

This is high, the equivalent of one out of every five homicides in the world occurring in Brazil. But it is also a 1 percent decrease from the ...

US violent crime rates in 2024 return to pre-COVID levels: Report

Homicides: 2% lower compared to first six months of 2019, 13% lower than the first 6 months of 2023; Aggravated assault: 0.2% lower than the six ...

Homicides See Historic Decline In 2023 Despite Perceptions That ...

After the pandemic brought historic spikes in murders, the U.S. is poised to finish the year with a historic drop in homicides and drops in ...

El Salvador says murders fell 70% in 2023 as it cracked down on ...

That implies a homicide rate of 2.4 per every 100,000 people, which Villatoro said was the lowest in the Americas apart from Canada. More than ...

Are Younger Generations Committing Less Crime?

The decrease in crime among younger generations suggests the possibility of lower future capacity needs for the criminal justice system. But although there has ...

Explainer: Immigrants and Crime in the United States

And research at the city level suggests that increases in immigration can be associated with declining homicide rates, with the largest effect on municipalities ...

Can Education Reduce Violent Crime? Evidence from Mexico ...

Considering that school enrolment in the pre-drug war period increased from 67 to approximately 90, the reduction in homicide rates corresponds to approximately ...

Most Murders in U.S. By City 2024 - 20 Hotspots In America

154 homicides as of October 16, 2024, representing a 30% decrease compared to the same period in 2023, when 221 homicides were recorded, as per ...

Notes from the Field: Firearm Homicide Rates, by Race and Ethnicity

... but remained higher than that in 2019 (3.8). Rates among non-Hispanic White and A/PI persons, although lower, also increased from 2019 to ...

Analysis of murder in SA's deadliest provinces calls for policing rethink

A new policy brief on soaring murder rates says government and police should prioritise murder-reduction partnerships ... but help improve ...

Effects of Waiting Periods on Violent Crime - RAND

Summary: Evidence that waiting periods may reduce total homicides is moderate, and evidence that waiting periods may reduce firearm homicides is limited.

Neighborhoods and Violent Crime - HUD User

Violent crime wreaks a terrible impact not only on individual victims, their families, and friends but also on nearby residents and the fabric of their ...

Gun availability and violent death. | AJPH | Vol. 87 Issue 6

Increasing Murders but Overall Lower Crime Suggests a Growing Gun Problem. John J. Donohue, American journal of public health, 2022. Chapter 12 12. Firearm ...

New FBI stats show 'historic' declines in violent crime rate, with ...

The murder rate fell by 26.4%, reported rapes decreased by 25.7%, robberies fell by 17.8%, aggravated assault fell by 12.5%, and the overall ...

Murder rates in 50 American cities - The Economist

Our analysis suggests that the national homicide rate is rising at its fastest pace since the early 1970s | Graphic detail.

Crime Trend Data Competes With Perception Problem | National News

The FBI published figures showing a 15% decline in overall reported violent crimes during the first quarter of 2024. Specifically, murder and ...

2022 Homicide Statistics for 24 U.S. Cities

In accordance with past years, New York City had the lowest homicide rate within our population category and overall sample. ... Overall crime up 22% in 2022, but ...

Global Study on Homicide 2013

Beyond resulting in the deaths of nearly half a mil- lion people in 2012, this form of violent crime has a broad impact on security — and the perception of ...

Violent Crime Soared During the Pandemic. But Does the Political ...

While this is often framed as a red-versus-blue debate, the data shows much broader trends — like the increase in murders — playing out across ...

Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate. Will anyone notice?

Homicides went up in 2020 and 2021 and are now rapidly coming back down. Violent crime nationwide hasn't increased. But the perception of a ...