Tag: crime

The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality

Sep 10, 2015

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mwkruse

in Crime, Public Policy, Race

The Atlantic: The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality "In his upcoming October cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how mass incarceration has affected African American families. "There's a long history in this country of dealing with problems in the African American community through the criminal justice system," he says in this animated interview. "The enduring view of…
Why the Increase in Justifiable Homicide by Law Enforcement?

Dec 9, 2014

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mwkruse

in Crime, Public Policy, Trends: Social

The rate of justifiable homicide by law enforcement is much higher in the United States than in other developed nations. The number of incidents has increased since 2000, even as the crime rate has dropped markedly. (See Justifiable Homicide by Law Enforcement by the Numbers) Why is this so? The reason for the high rate…
Reasons to Be Cheerful

Aug 19, 2014

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mwkruse

in Crime, Demography, Education, Environment, Great Divergence, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Poverty, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Matt Ridley: Reasons to Be Cheerful We are prone to fixate on problems and threats. The news concentrates on Ebola, the Middle East and Ukraine violence, and the discord in Ferguson, Missouri. But it is important to keep present challenges (and they are more decidedly real) in context. Matt Ridley offers twelve reasons to be…
50 Reasons We’re Living Through the Greatest Period in World History

Feb 21, 2014

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mwkruse

in Crime, Demography, Education, Environment, Great Divergence, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Poverty, Public Policy, Race, Technology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Huff Post Business (The Motley Fool): 50 Reasons We're Living Through the Greatest Period in World History I recently talked to a doctor who retired after a 30-year career. I asked him how much medicine had changed during the three decades he practiced. "Oh, tremendously," he said. He listed off a dozen examples. Deaths from…
Why juvenile incarceration reached its lowest rate in 38 years

Feb 27, 2013

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mwkruse

in Crime, Generations, Public Policy, Sociology, Trends: Social

Christian Science Monitor: Why juvenile incarceration reached its lowest rate in 38 years The juvenile incarceration in the US rate has fallen 41 percent in the past 15 years, reaching the lowest level since 1975, a new study finds. What is behind the rapid decline? Fewer young people are behind bars than at any point…
2012’s Year in Maps

Dec 21, 2012

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mwkruse

in Crime, Public Policy, Race, Sociology

The Atlantic Cities has a piece about ten interesting maps from 2012. Year in Review: 2012's Year in Maps The map below is just one of them. "Mayor Bloomberg's insistent support for the NYPD's Stop and Frisk policy has been the single most contentious policy of his tenure, and WNYC's illustration of where the stops…
Saturday Links

Dec 15, 2012

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mwkruse

in Africa, Business, Capitalism and Markets, China, Christian Life, Crime, Demography, Economic News, Environment, Health and Medicine, International Affairs, Links – Saturday, Politics, Public Policy, Religion, Sociology, Sports and Entertainment, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Theology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

(Like the Kruse Kronicle on Facebook if you want links to daily posts to appear in your Facebook feed.) 1. Pray for Egypt Today! More than 50 million Egyptians are voting today on a constitution that would be a giant step backward for Egypt and much of the Middle East, marginalizing women and religious minorities.…
The Plight of Young, Black Men Is Worse Than You Think

Oct 1, 2012

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mwkruse

in Demography, Economics, Public Policy, Race, Sociology

BusinessWeek: The Plight of Young, Black Men Is Worse Than You Think The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any wealthy nation, with about 2.3 million people behind bars at any given moment. (That’s 730 out of 100,000, vs. just 154 for England and Wales.) There are more people in U.S. prisons than are…
Crime (Part 2)

Feb 6, 2008

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mwkruse

in Crime, Demography, Health and Medicine, Series: Social Indicators 2007, Sociology, Trends: Social

SOCIAL INDICATORS 2007 Crime (Part 2) The Columbine High School tragedy in Littleton, Colorado, in 1999, has come to symbolize a culture of pervasive youth violence. There is no question that the Columbine episode was well beyond the ordinary expression of youth violence, but was it truly symbolic of trends in youth culture? Historical statistics…
American Social Indicators, 2006: Getting Better but Feeling Worse

Dec 28, 2006

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mwkruse

in Crime, Demography, Economics, Environment, Health and Medicine, Public Policy, Race, Series: Social Indicators, Sociology, Wealth and Income

Over the past month, I have done twelve posts on American cultural indicators. Here is an index to those posts: Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy Suicide Crime (Part 1) Crime (Part 2) Substance Abuse Family Formation and Sexuality (Part 1) Family Formation and Sexuality (Part 2) Education Economic Status (Part 1) Economic Status (Part 2)…