What is Crime?

The website although somewhat difficult to navigate (a large burden for any user) really did put a whole new light on the ambiguous term of “public record.” Through the criminology field that I’m currently studying in, it was nice to see a breakdown of the National Victimization survey, and the Uniform crime reports. Both are essentially the leading statistical representations of crime distribution, along with resource allocation to agencies and so forth. (Basically an easy way to determine what crime has occurred where and what sources each department needs.) However, there are problems with these surveys including statistical representation, and bias. The Uniform crime reports in some cases have even been skewed by department heads, simple to get more local resources for the department (however that pertains little to this website). Secondly, the victimization report as the links suggests (and through further digging) do poorly in reporting the “dark figure” of crime, or crime which simply is not reported. This is what I really liked about the extensive breakdown of the types, and amounts of crime that the website explains all the way from violent youth crimes, to hospital reports, number of deaths in prison. Although confusing to navigate, once I found a topic or a link of interest the website really got me rolling in finding data, information, and reports on various crimes. I also found the explanation of crime being a “perception” in some cases to be interesting. I related that fact to the possible responses that the crime survey gets are probably ambiguous as that what one person reports as criminal, may be seen by another as no reason to report. That’s why on the link I really found the breakdown of the crime survey interesting because it focuses on victims perceptions, which may relate to psychology in some way, the very purpose of the course!

This website has a lot of information about crime related activities, and I found it slightly overwhelming to browse through. However I found this website to have a lot of good information pertaining to crimes, and found many specific statistics about certain types of criminal activities. It organized topics by courts, correctional, by crime, federal, law enforcement and victimization.

For instance, on the Criminal Victimization statistic tables manual, it talked about who was likely to be raped, robbed, and assaulted by age, race, income, geographic location, number of family members and by the relationship of the criminal and the victim. It also went into depth by what the degree of the crimes committed were, and how they were committed. For instance, it talks about where the location of where robbery, assaults and rapes occurred, and if it was committed by a stranger or someone the victim knew.
This site also has many different articles that were researched and written by people with PhD’s who looked specifically at different types of people and crimes. Some of these included people with disabilities, by different states, and by race. There were also articles about people in prison, on parole and correctional populations in general. There was also research on crimes such as cyber bulling, human trafficking, gangs and identity theft, which are major problems globally and in the United States.

The website also measured crime in a chart in two different ways which were called the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). The National Crime Victimization Survey was a survey given to citizens all throughout the country who responded with crimes that were both reported and unreported, giving a bigger and more diverse population sample. The Uniform Crime Reports are given through more local agencies and through the FBI. There are both good ways to measure criminal activity throughout the country.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics website really opened up my mind to different types of crime statistics about them. I will in the future refer to this website if needed.

This site wasn’t the most user friendly or appealing, but that is beside the point. It contained a lot of really interesting information. It provided exactly what you would expect from the name: statistics related to the criminal justice system. Between the three links, this assignment allowed us to explore many of the different realms of the criminal justice system we are learning about.
This first link took you to the home page of the site. From here, there were links to hundreds of statistics ranging from incarceration rates to rates of crime against youths. I personally love looking at statistical representations of different a variety of things. While keeping in mind that statistics can sometimes misrepresent the actual occurrences they are attempting to represent, stats provide a quick glance at societal activities. Among the things I observed from the website, I learned that in 2010, boys and girls were roughly equal in their chances of being the victims of sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault, compared to boys being about twice in 1994. The rate of crimes against white and hispanic children had decrease since 2002, but had remained the same for black children. In 2010, the number of people being released from prison was higher than the number of people being admitted to prison.
I thought the most interesting statistics featured on the homepage related to the number of people who had died in prison. The number of deaths in prison had fallen from 2009 to 2010. The number of deaths in prison peaked in 2007 and has been falling since. Men account for 9 out of every 10 inmate deaths, which could be the result of many different factors. We could look at the number of men and women serving life sentences or other long-term sentences and rates of inmate violence in both genders to determine if there are disparities. At first glance, it would be easy to say this is just because men are more violent or stay longer in prison because they are convicted of more serious offenses than women at a higher rate, but we must remember that statistics only provide part of the whole picture.
The second link took you to a breakdown of statistics by the type of crime committed. From this page you could explore stats related to gangs, violent crime, or cybercrime. Each page brought you to a list of important terms and a list of other sources. These sources provided explanations and graphs of reported crimes. From here I learned that between 1998 and 2003, gang members committed 6% of crimes. This PDF of gang related crime was very interesting, but made the point of announcing that these were perceived gang members.Gang membership is not something that we can tell for certain unless it is disclosed. All of these statistics have the potential to misrepresent the information. Another weakness of crime statistics is that they can only represent what is reported. Unreported crime makes up a large portion of all crimes committed, but we never know just how much.
The last link provided access to several tables representing criminal victimizations in 2008. I was first drawn to Table 4, which provided information on the rate of victimization based on gender and age. I have learned through my previous sociology and gender differences classes, that men from the age of 20-25 are generally the most likely to be both the perpetrator and victim of violent crime. This graph, however, showed that men from the age of 35-49 had higher rates of victimization. After thinking about this and looking at the table again, I noticed that the age groups were not divided by the same number of years each time. Reporting data in this manner is just one of the ways we can intentionally or unintentionally skew the representation of data. Maybe I’m too critical of the methods of reporting the statistics,instead of focusing on the different the types of information provided, but this is what caught my eye during this assignment. It is important to be critical of the statistical representations you are trying to interpret because even the slightest oversight can change the meaning of the numbers.

This website was very interesting. I liked that it seemed well organized, although it wasn’t the easiest site to navigate. For example, I would click on a topic that sounded interesting and it would take me to another page where there were many other links. Then you would have to click on those links to even get close to what you were looking for. Despite that, I think this site has a lot of good, credible information that could be very useful for anyone searching for statistics on any crime. I love the diversity of crime information the site has to offer.

When I looked at types of crimes, I was surprised to find many things that I typically wouldn’t think of as a “crime.” For example, cybercrime, identity theft, property crime, and human trafficking were all listed under crime types. These things aren’t the first things that come to mind when I think of crimes.

Another thing I liked about the site was the heading titled “topics.” When I run my mouse over this heading, a huge box pops up with tons and tons of different topics related to crime. In addition to crime types, other topics on this site include victims, corrections, courts, federal, and law enforcement.

Something I really found interesting in the document we looked at was the statistics on those who have never been married, who are married, who are divorced or separated, and who are widowed. I was actually very surprised that those who have the lowest rates of crimes of violence were those who were widowed. Common sense tells me that those who are married would have lower rates of crimes of violence. I think those who are widowed might even be categorized along side those who are separated or divorced. It surprised me because I would think after being widowed, some people might have trouble dealing with the loss and resort to a different lifestyle, one of crime. It’s also known that during the grief process, bouts of anger may occur commonly. Therefore, I would assume that those who are widowed would produce more crimes of violence than those who are married, but according to this table, this is not so! Very interesting to learn.

As soon as I entered the Bureau of Justice Statistics website, I realized I had no idea what they actually do. After looking under the “about us” section, I found that they collect and analyze information on crime, offenders and the victims of crimes. The data they come up with are used to fight against crime and to help make the criminal justice system more efficient. This website also puts crime into sub groups such as violent, property, gangs, cyber, identity theft, and hate crime. Each additional link to these sub groups go into heavy detail. I also found that this website is kind of hard to navigate. There are so many things you can click on that will take you to the most random statistics, but granted they are all probably really important. The website also indicates the use of UCR and the NCVS. I am fairly familiar with both after using them in other criminology classes, and we always had to use the index crimes, which are the seven most serious crimes. I looked up the amount of crime by sex and race. I found it interesting the difference in the percentage of crime from white to black women. Black women are involved in more crime in every category than white women. White females committed 28.5% of crime, while black women committed 54% of crimes for females. I also found it weird that they didn’t include other as a race, which totally excludes a large population for crimes.

I found the articles I looked at to be rather shocking. Looking at raw numbers and data really put things in perspective, at least for me. One of the things we talked about in this class briefly and in my other psych classes as well, is the fact that psychologist are nearly awful at predicting some ones future behavior. Some people who looked at The Bureau of Justice Statistics might think that is a bit ridiculous because the website had tons of facts about what types of people have higher crime rates in categories such as: race, ethnicity, age, and sex. However we can’t just assume because younger black people have higher crime rates then younger whites that every young black person we see has committed a criminal act, and every young white child is an angel. I find some of these statistics to be the reason that, for example, more black people have higher amounts of speeding tickets on their personal record. It isn’t just a coincidence that cops like to pull over black people…there is “reasons” which I personally don’t think are always correct assumptions.
Something I learned about visiting the required sites for this blog was that there are two different ways that crimes are measured. I had no idea there was even one way! This information to me was really interesting. One of the surveys is called BJS's National Crime Victimization Survey (NVS), and the second is called FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). There are two different indicators, and each one complements the other in different ways. I think it is good that there is two different indicators because “Two is always better than one” right? Having more than one indicator gives more approximant data and gives a better idea that the results are accurate. I also learned the differences between the two indicators as well. There are differences in the way the data is collected, where it is collected, and also how the crimes are measured. The NVS gives national estimates, sends out surveys to households and measures reported and unreported crimes. The UCR is different in giving National & State estimates and local agency reports, get reports from law enforcement agencies, and measures index crimes reported by law enforcement.
This was the funniest piece of data I saw by far….Pocket picking 108,310..seriously?! That much victimization for pick pocketing. I find that pretty crazy. I love how they have just about everything on these data tables. Something I didn’t find as funny, was that the highest amount of crime of any other age was 12-15 years old, 43.6 percent of personal crimes are in this age group! This shows that something needs to be done. If kids are starting crime at that age, obviously they don’t have a very good future laid out for them which makes me rather sick to know kids are already ruining their futures at such a young age.

Key terms: The Bureau of Justice Statistics, BJS's National Crime Victimization Survey (NVS), FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), pocket picking, speeding tickets, personal record

I found all the information compiled by the websites to be staggering, and a little difficult to search through. Still I found all the information within it fascinating. Like many others have said its a bit of a task just to get what your looking for, sometimes going three deep in links just to get a PDF or a link to the article you're looking for, still the site is at least organized well enough that finding the initial topic isn't all that hard.
I was really interested in the correctional population article they had. It was this time I'm glad that it took a few steps because after reading the journal I went back and read the mass media article and saw how they transitioned a scholastic article into something the everday person could sit down and read. The article was interesting too, I found it cool that population was going down. Although to me it sounded like such a small decline when compared to the fact it was about 6.98 million people within the correctional system. Another article I found really interesting was the article on the state corrections expenditures. I've always enjoyed reading articles that have a lot of data and comparisons and it was intriguing to see how states would set aside budget money for corrections, or to see how much of the corrections money went into institutions, or to see once they had that money what the correction facilities used it on (like medical expenses). Overall I would say I enjoyed my time with the site and think its a pretty cool way to see what kind of data can be collected from the corrections system.

The site in and of itself is not the most user friendly, especially if your not interested or knowlegeable in the criminal justice feild. As far as the content; it speeks for it's self. This site obtains it's data from two major sources, the UCR and the NCVS. Both of these sources are produced and controlled by the FBI. From my education I can tell you they are very different and serve different purposes. The UCR is system that allows police/ law enforcement departments to report crimes; in return they often see some federal funding as a result. At any rate the UCR is not manditory and is composed of onlt the most serious crimes. For example, is an individual is burglarized at home, then raped and killed-- only that murder will be reported and documented on the UCR's data. In the end the UCR data is quality in only most serious crimes.
On the other hand, the NCVS also has it's down falls. This is a "survey" sent out to every household in America. It normally takes place every four years put on by the FBI of course. It is not manditory, and often not accurate. Often victims do not report honest crimes in the survey. Another important note to make is that murder/homocide/manslaughter cannot be collected through the NCVS; obviously the victim of a homocide is dead and unable to report.
What is Crime? Well the data presented on BJS website is accurate yet not complete data. Crime is socially created and visual in every day life. Data and bulk statistics do however help us rationalize how big of a factor crime plays in our society and culture!

I agree with Crim these websites to me were rather confusing and not user friendly. However when I learned to navigate them I learned how many different categories crime can be listed under. It was interesting to note that crime in the White and Hispanic population have gone down considerably. Also I noticed that 20-30 years ago most crimes were committed by men, but now a days its about even with men a little ahead as far as actual numbers go. I did notice however the more serious crimes were still committed by males. Prison systems seems to discharge more people than what they convict, however, its not by much. And there was aprox. 1.6 million people in prison systems which to me is quite a lot of people. Also I noticed that per 1000 kids are the most likely to be victimised. Now 35-42 I believe Is still the most that actually happen, but by percentage kids are more victimized. I noticed some other people commenting to this same thing, and how other statistics show different results. Its just a slight tweak in how they show the data, which can make a huge difference in how something is portrayed. Looking at these websites make me appreciate how complex the legal system is just in regards to the amount of crimes, and court proceedings that go on.

Upon opening the Bureau of Justice links, I too was a little confused on the overall layout of the page, as a couple people above me were as well. Once I started dissecting all the tabs and links, I realized there was so much interesting information to be learned. I am very interested in crime, criminals, and victims and the correlation between the three of these, and this site not only delivers this information, but it puts it easily into charts and organized publications per topic. For example, under the "Corrections" tab you can study publications on the jail population, be it crimes, prison mortality, prison rape, etc. I looked at prison mortality, and was given statistics, charts and information on how deaths occurred, if the mortality rate has dropped or risen, etc. You can really do this for any topic related to the Bureau of Justice. The first topic you had us view was about crimes on adolescents. Again, there was much information and charts on types of crime, who is committing these crimes, and if this rate is going up or down. I was relieved to see that the crime rate against adolescents is dropping significantly, somewhere in the 70% range. Lastly, the 3rd report you had us take a look at is a real eye opener. This information is so useful, not only for the government, but for persons doing research and reports on these topics. You can literally find anything in this report: Types of crimes committed, weapons used, type of victims, type of criminals, ages as related to crimes, etc. To summarize, being a person strongly interested in crime in the U.S. I believe this site has so much value, not only to research but in keeping people safe. As the Bureau of Justice mission statement reads:
"To collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to federal, state, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded".

This website to me was a little overwhelming with all of the information that it provided but once I navigated it for a while I started to understand more of what the website was intended for. The Bureau of Justice has put together ton of statistics reflecting various departments and different topics related to that department. For instance in Law Enforcement they have listed Arrest-Related Deaths as a topic. The Justice Department lists information about Arrest-Related deaths as well as data collections and surveys, publications and products, and some terms and definitions if you were unsure as to what something meant. I found that arrest-related deaths were a national collection of persons who die in the custody of state or local law enforcement during the course of arrest. The death did not have to occur because of a law enforcement officer to be reported, an officer just has to be present at time of death. Instances such as suicide, intoxication, and accidental deaths fall under this. However what I found interesting was that deaths of innocent bystanders, hostages, and law enforcement officers were excluded from deaths in the process of arrest. Also excluded were the deaths accounted for while being held in prison, a long-term holding facility or juvenile correctional facility. Surprisingly, law enforcement agencies and states are not required to let the bureau of Justice know when any arrest related deaths occur; this is the job of a state reporting coordinator.

I found these sites very interesting. A person could spend all day exploring the different types of crimes, articles, and data on the web pages. There are many different types of crimes and the UCR records these by part one and part two crimes per 100,000 people which are reported by law enforcement. The NCVS (National Crime Victimization Survery) also helps discover crime rates..this works by surveying people every 6 months.
I found the Violent Crime Against Youth article very facinating. Kids at just the young age of 12 are being exposed to crime, especially young boys!
The PDF file I found was a lot easier to navigate. These is a ton of data right at your finger tips, it has the rates of per 1000 persons per household of victimizations and a whole list of crimes in which they could have expirenced.
Overall I found all of these sources very interesting and compelling. The sites took awhile to get used to, but after awhile it was all good.

I am a psychology major who has very little background or knowledge of the legal system. So this website was very foreign and confusing to me. I was able to find the criminal victimization stats, which was interesting to me. The breakdowns weren’t far from what I expected, in terms of the more common crimes. Seeing the rate of 1,000 people that are victims really put some things into perspective for me, although I had to keep telling myself that these are only reported crimes. I also looked at the national crime victimization survey. I don’t see how this information is accurate or valid. I’m taking Research Methods right now, so I have a more critical and skeptical eye for things than I used to… and this doesn’t seem like a very good indicator to me (regarding sample and statistical representation).

I found the statistic about youth’s chances of being victims very interesting. In 1994, boys were twice as likely as girls to be victims of sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault. In 2010, boys and girls were just about equal in terms of their chances of being victims. I’m interested to know psychology’s perspective on possible reasons for this dramatic change.

I spent a lot of time looking at Table 4 of the Criminal Victimization link – which compared genders of all ages. For males, their total crimes of violence percentage decreased as they got older – at every single age group. For women, their total crimes of violence percentage shot up at the 20-24 age group. I’m curious as to the difference between genders, and the reason for the 20-24 age group of women to be the highest percentage. Could this too be a problem with the surveys, samples, and young women being reluctant to report crimes?

The last thing I read about was the mortality rates of those in prison. I was not surprised to learn that 9/10 people who die in prison are males. We know that men are more physically violent than women, and that men are more likely to commit crimes that would put them in prison (therefore there are more men in prison who have the chance of dying there). I wonder if there are other factors that I am not aware of though…? I also saw that for three years in a row, the number of deaths in prison has decreased. What is this change due to? I suspect it reflects the prison’s regulations that are changing… possibly to intentionally decrease the number of deaths.

This website is full of information and at first it overwhelmed me because I had no idea what to start looking at. I started looking at the different tabs and categories for different crime types. There are different categories and sub categories that talk about crimes. It also provided specific definitions of the crimes so it makes it easy to understand why certain crimes are what they are. It also talked about different types of courts that people have to go through depending on the details of their crime. It is hard to realize how many different court processes there are. Under the tab corrections was interesting. It contained information about different types of corrections, such as total, local, state, and federal corrections. I found it interesting how it also listed capital punishment, rapes in prison, and deaths in custody. These are the types of things that we do not hear much about. We rarely hear about prisoners that die while in custody. I never knew that there was an act specifically for prison rape. I thought it was interesting that this exists and I think it is a good idea. Another thing I found interesting was while looking at table four in the last link the amount of male crimes of violence by percentage decreased as the age increased. While looking at the female violence percentages there was not a clear trend. All in all this was an interesting web site. It had a lot of information and after breaking it down it was not as overwhelming as my first impression had been. I liked how it had a lot of definitions of terms at the bottom of each page. I t made it easier to understand what the website was trying to communicate.

This website is great for not only for public viewing, but for those who have careers in crime or studying victimization. Being in criminology this website gives me a good idea of how the crime rates and victimization over long periods of time. Crime rates overall are slow starting to decrease, but violent crimes are on rise. The two best collections of data on crime are UCR and NIBRS, both used by law enforcement. The UCR is the most widely used by all police departments, but it has limitations. NIBRS breaks down crimes better and gives more details on criminals and victims, which would help all departments, keep better records.

From the facts on these websites we can see that spending on prisons is decreasing slightly over the years, but I would like to be spending on mental health treatment and other treatments for violent criminals. I think we could reduce spending on criminals in prisons if we would spend more money into treating drug/alcohol addictions and treating people with mental health problems. Violent crimes are on the rise and were not really do anything to treat these people.

After reading and skimming over the website and pages I wish I would have paid more attention in stats class. These web pages were from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and had many charts pertaining to different crime rate among different races for various types of crimes.

The first page we went on looks like the Bureau's homepage. It had new releases and announcements, as well as links to other pages. I looked at some of the links under new releases and found a couple interesting facts. Under the violent crime against youth I found that black youths experienced the highest rates of serious violent crime in 2010. I try to not have a bias when looking at statistics like these but I feel like it fulfills the stereotypes that people have for black youths. I also saw that youth with a married head of household is less likely to experience serious violent crime than youth with an unmarried head of household. These makes sense to me that if you have another adult figure than the children will be less involved in crime or have it happen to them.

The second page was a little more geared towards the jargon and lingo of the statistics and how they are gathered. The website gathers crime statistics two ways. The first is through the FBI's uniform crime reports, which are crimes reported by law enforcement. The second is the Bureau of Justice Statistic's Crime Victimization Survey, which are reported and unreported crime from the victim's perspective. This page also had many terms and definitions of various crimes and legal jargon. It was interesting to see just what acts actually fell under the terms such as burglary and assault.

The last page was a report of Criminal Victimization
in the United States, 2008 Statistical Tables. It was pretty confusing, but contained all the different tables and types of crimes for different households and ethnic backgrounds.

Two things that I found very interesting from these websites is one, that most violent victimization are committed by someone that the person knows. 38% is committed by stranger meaning that 62% of these types of crimes are committed by a person that the victim is familiar with. But on the third site it said the percentages were equal but that probably can be attributed to that the statistics were taken in 2008 as opposed to 2010. The other thing that I found surprising is that violent crime committed against males and females is now equal for both genders. Almost 20 years ago in 1994 males were twice as likely as females to experience violent crime. This makes me wonder what has changed over the years?

By looking at the third site it made me realize that there is a lot of research and statistics that go into trying to categorize crime. It also is split into many groups. I found this interesting because then you can look at it from many perspectives. For example you can look at female youth crime or just youth crime in general or female crimes in general depending on what you are looking for.

All these sites were great to look at for the general over view of crime rates and the type of crimes committed. I could compare more recent crime rates to those of the middle 1990s and see how things had changed. It was also interesting to me that when asked if the crime rates were going up or down that was not a consensus answer among criminologists. Could this be due to the way different people define crime?

While roaming through the website, I learned some facts about our prisons, and incarceration rates, and crime. I saw that the amount of people in the prisons have decreased for the past three years, although I do not agree that some of the people in the prisons should be there. I say this because when people are in prison for the marijuana, I think its plain silly. You are going to prison for the distribution of marijuana which is legal in states, but not in theirs. The government is going to have to figure something out about the laws against marijuana and so do the states. When I looked through the "Crime Type" tab, it showed all the types of crimes there were. Like Violent crimes, property crime, drug crimes, hate crime, cyber crime, identity theft, and so on. I think crime is whenever someone breaks a law. Therefore I think that some of the laws should be changed. But crime is definitely when someone has the intent to break the law and does. When I looked at the gang crime tab and saw that they ask victims if they think that the people who committed the crime was in a gang or not...I thought that was strange because they are getting the opinion, not the facts about that person every time.

I perused the Bureau of Justice Statistics site and found some interesting information once I found my way around the crowded site. It was awesome to have so many statistics available at your disposal mainly those based on gender and age. I found the two crimes on the left sidebar of civil and criminal crimes somewhat interesting. To have a site give information regarding civil crimes and the subsequent information that followed along was helpful. Another link I found interesting were the drug and crime link along with the gang crime link. The drug and crime link basically detailed different drug crimes that arise from not only the use of the drug but the lifestyle it brings upon its users. Different definitions were given for the various offenses along with statistics detailing the most widely abused drug crimes. I did notice that some of the publications were decades out of date, some from the late 80's. It took some digging to find some newer and more useful data. The criminal victimization link we were told to look at had an overwhelming amount of statistical tables embedded in the PDF. Some were somewhat self explanatory, for example the rape table detailed females in their late teens and early twenties were the most likely to be raped and abused. Others such as the gang table was somewhat more complex. For instance, first time offenders are less likely to commit another gang crime if convicted for the first.

The first two websites which were from the BJS were in my opinion very well constructed. I was able to click and click; go back and forth easily. The vast amount of information was just overwhelming to say the least. I could have sat there for hours reading and reading through all the material and facts, if I had the time. I was able to browse through a few topics of personal interest like under the corrections tab there was a listing of all correction facilities which I am considering working for once I get my degree. That information was very helpful and good to know. Also, under the topic category under Law Enforcement the forensic investigation section which I found all the information just fascinating. I also looked through victims tab, the crime characteristics and trends which I thought was very interesting. One thing I really did enjoy on the second website which was the “Crime Type” section was that if you did not understand any of the words there was a Terms & Definitions bank of information. I thought that was a very good idea because not everyone knows the difference between assault and aggravated assault. Another thing about the second website was the number of publications that are available to read and go through. I was able to click on a few and I just had to make myself stop because there were very good articles.

The document Criminal Victimization in the United States which was full of statistics was very eye opening. I went through some of the tables and was shocked at the number of crimes in all of the cases. I was also amazed how those are just the crimes that are reported which I know for a fact that not all crimes are reported. I was just sickened at some of the tables statistics and more so the number of crimes itself was horrifying. There were just so many different crimes with different aged victims. Every aspect of a crime is dissected and put into a category so that this type of statistic table can be created. It was truly a reality check for me, for sure. It did in fact remind me of why I came into the field of psychology and incorporate the law in some way. I want to help people and then society as a whole in a way that even if I help one person from committing a crime or re-committing another crime through counseling or therapy then I would have changed the number by at least one. That is my goal or my purpose of coming back to school so I really liked this document because it was so raw and the facts are the facts. And once again, the statistics is not as accurate as one thinks. The actual number of victims is way higher than that I am sure of that.