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Violent Crime

Violent Crime

Crime is an action in which an offender knowing or unknowingly violates the law.

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About Violent Crime

A violent crime 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 (see also: Crime Terminology). Violent crimes include crimes committed with and without weapons. With the exception of rape, which accounts for roughly 6% of all reported violent crimes, males are the primary victims of all forms of violent crime.

The United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) counts five categories of crime as violent crimes: murder, 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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People stand prior a march to protest following the murder of a Chinese man and his baby on January 10, 2011 in Rome. The murder of Zeng Zhou, 31, and his six-month-old daughter, late on January 5 night, has caused shock waves in Italy, with fear among both the Italian and Chinese communities that violent crime is on the rise.

Underwear hangs from a rope with a sign reading 'No more incest. Violence against women is not a private matter. It is a crime. Report it!' during a demonstration for the commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, in Guatemala City on November 25, 2011. 651 women have died due to violent events in Guatemala this year.

A woman walks by flowers and pictures in front of the house of Agnes on November 21, 2011 in Paris. France was reeling after a 17-year-old boy brutally raped and murdered a girl at a chic boarding school while conditionally freed on charges of rape a year ago. 'It's absurd, it could have been avoided with a little less negligence,' the dead 13-year-old's mother, Paola Marin, told Europe 1 radio as a nation struggled to comprehend how the gruesome crime could have happened. The girl, Agnes, was a pupil at the College-lycee Cevenol International in central France. Her burned body was found after she was raped and murdered in what the prosecutor said was 'an extremely violent and brutal way.' The slain girl's family, the school and French educational and judicial authorities are all asking the same question: how could such a crime have taken place given the boy's history?.

Soldiers set security posts along avenues and boulevards during an operation to fight violence and crime in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, on November 1, 2011. According to a study by the United Nations' Office on Drugs and Crime, Honduras is the world's most violent country, with a murder rate of 82.1 per 100.000 inhabitants.

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