Violence in America

Violence in America

Historical evidences highlight that North America is and remains till today as one of the violent regions in the world. Although it is difficult to establish, however, since most of the official crime statistics are not absolutely accurate. In fact, crime statistics for each country are suffering from their own degree of underreporting and inadequate recording of crimes, and each country defines certain crimes differently. These limitations should be borne in mind when making comparisons of crime in North America with the rest of the world.

Contrary to popular opinion, today the largest share of street crimes are committed not negros and whites, which, after all, is numerically the largest population group in the United States. This does not mean to minimize the problem of crime among blacks: serious violent crime remains an urgent and immediate threat to the very fabric of the American society. Compared with other Western societies, America has a high level of criminal violence, but not everything depends on this violence in the same manner (Bonohue, 2008). Criminal violence is not evenly distributed between different racial, ethnic, social and class lines. Violence (eg, slavery and lynching) historically affected the American history disproportionately. In the United States, blacks have always been more likely to be murdered than whites. Nevertheless, some changes have occurred in the nature and extent deadly violence among blacks over the past few decades. The increasing polarization of the black population in America has a place: more and more, and black-Todo middle class, separated from the growing number of poor people "inferior" blacks, whose homes are usually concentrated in areas slums in major American cities. It is in the slums of America, that crime has become a huge problem with the chance of being murdered about seven times higher among blacks than ...