Everything about Violent Crime totally explained
A
violent crime or
crime of violence is a
crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act is the objective, such as murder, as well as crimes in which
violence is the means to an end, such as robbery. Violent crimes include crimes committed with and without weapons. With the exception of
rape (which accounts for 6% of all violent crimes), males are the primary victims of all forms of violent crime.
Violent Crime by Country
The comparison of violent
crime statistics between countries is often problematic due to the way different countries classify crime. Valid comparisons require that similar offences between jurisdictions be compared. Often this isn't possible because crime statistics aggregate equivalent offences in such different ways that make it difficult or impossible to obtain a valid comparison.
Australia
The
Australian Standard Offence Classification (ASOC) document published by the
Australian Bureau of Statistics doesn't have a single category for violent crime. Rather, violent crime is classified under a number of different categories that often indicate a range of both violent and non-violent behaviour. The categories include:
Canada
Canada classifies
homicides,
attempted murder, all
assaults, all
sexual offences,
abduction and
robbery as violent crime.
New Zealand
New Zealand's crime statistics has a category for violence that includes
homicides,
kidnapping,
abduction,
robbery,
assaults,
intimidation,
threats, and
group assembly, while all
sexual offences are shown in a separate category from violence.
United Kingdom
England and Wales
Includes all
violence against the person,
sexual offences, and
robbery as violent crime.
United States
The
United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) counts five categories of crime as violent crimes:
murder,
forcible rape,
robbery,
aggravated assault, and
simple assault. According to BJS figures, the rate of violent crime victimization in the
United States declined by more than half between the years 1994 and 2001.
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