From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 12:10:24 MDT
-- Damien Broderick
<d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> So violent crimes of all kinds comprise some 30% of
> occasions for
> imprisonment, right? And drugs rather less than half
> that?
>
> I couldn't find the sub-% for murder on a quick
> glance thru.
These are the arrests made nationwide, by crime, for
2000. This does not indicate how many prisoners are in
prison at any given time for a specific crime.
TOTAL 9,123,428
Rate 5,010.4
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter 8,709
Rate 4.8
Forcible rape 17,914
Rate 9.8
Robbery 72,320
Rate 39.7
Aggravated assault 316,630
Rate 173.9
Burglary 189,343
Rate 104.0
Larceny-theft 782,082
Rate 429.5
Motor vehicle theft 98,697
Rate 54.2
Arson 10,675
Rate 5.9
Violent crime 415,573
Rate 228.2
Property crime 1,080,797
Rate 593.6 483.9 620.6 616.8 621.3
Crime Index total 1,496,370
Drug abuse violations 1,042,334
Rate 572.4
While the numbers of murder and non-negligent
manslaughter that are cleared by arrest in 2000 are
12,291, for a clearance rate of 63% or so. This does
not indicate what percent of those arrested are
convicted and sent to prison.
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t639.pdf
The above gives good information as to the offenses of
the current state and federal prison populations.
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