Explain the distribution of crime across the United States. How does theory help us explain the distribution of crime?
What will be an ideal response?
Crime is not evenly distributed within the United States. As Blumstein (2000) noted, in 1996 only “ten cities (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington, New Orleans, Baltimore, Houston, [and] Dallas, in order of decreasing numbers of homicides) accounted for fully one quarter of all the nation’s homicides” (p. 36). Striking differences in criminality are also found within communities, and even across blocks located within the same neighborhood (Weisburd, Groff, & Yang, 2012). Theories help by identifying the causes of crime.
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