Homicide

Homicide Chapter 9: Homicide Chapter nine focuses on homicide in the world today and the effects it has on people in the area that the homicide occurs. The first part of the chapter discusses the extent of homicide victimization. The FBI describes criminal homicide as the “willful killing of one human being by another…” This includes every sort of death by a human to a human except traffic fatalities and gross negligence. The FBI uses this definition to help report about homicides in the United States. From these results homicide victims have a greater chance of being males over females. They were also able to figure that African Americans in the United States are overrepresented in homicide figures. The results that the FBI collects about homicides help to figure out many statistics about America and its crime rate especially when it comes to murder. They tally up methods of homicide, age of victims and race of victims all to get statistics about the US’s murder rates. The overall homicide rate in the US’s has declined in the past few years. Researchers have turned to something called the lifetime murder victimization rate; it measures the chances of dying in a homicide in order homicide, people, chapter, victims, about, murder, homicides, culture, crime, victim, today, suggests, role, reasons, one, differential, able, violence, victimization, united, three, theories, study, statistics, states, regional, rate, out, media, looks, human, horrible, help, goes, figure, fbi