Homicide Rate Essay Examples

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A Research on Reducing Homicide Rates Through the Use of Licensed Taxicabs in the United States (403 words, 2 pages)

In the article, Effectiveness of Taxicab Security Equipment in Reducing Driver Homicide Rates, units of analysis are licensed taxicabs from 26 different cities and the homicide rates. Conducting a Lexis-Nexus Boolean search that electronically located newspaper reports during a given time frame, data for the number of taxi driver homicides ... Read More

An Analysis of the High Homicide Rate for Miami-Dade County (809 words, 2 pages)

Compared to many other places in the world, the homicide rate for Miami-Dade County is troublingly high. The principal contributors are men. It is known that men are more prone to commit homicides than women. It is not known, though, what makes men so much more aggressive than women. Experts ... Read More

The Issue of High Homicide Rate in Miami-Dade County (802 words, 2 pages)

An Analysis of the Firearm Homicide Rate (921 words, 2 pages)

From 1979 to 1989, the firearm homicide rate for persons 15-19 increased sixty-one percent. Male youth in the U.S. are more than five times as likely to be victims of homicide as to youths in many other developed countries. The violence in many entertainment programs has increased to over seventeen ... Read More

Death Penalties Do Not Lower Homicide Rates (993 words, 2 pages)

"The abolition of the death penalty in Canada in 1976 has not led to increased homicide rates. Statistics Canada reports that the number of homicides in Canada in 2001 (554) was 23 lower than the number of homicides in 1975 (721), the year before the death penalty was abolished. In ... Read More

A Paper on Homicide Rate in Oakland, California (1269 words, 2 pages)

(for a current events brief) A round of bullets killed Katherine Bagwell adding to the growing number of homicides in Oakland, California this summer. Her 7-year-old daughter sat beside her in the car as she watch the horrific event. Sadly, it had been only one year ago that the girl ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013