Word: violent
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...wholesale lots, and randomly as well. Traditionally, murders have been crimes of passion or the outcome of quarrels between relatives or friends. As far as police can determine, 34% of the 1,554 people killed in New York City in 1974 did not know their assailants. Of all violent crimes, 65% are committed against strangers...
...CRIMINALS: YOUNG AND VIOLENT...
...only 20% of the FBI's 10 million reported crimes resulted in arrests last year), the profile of the criminal is hard to draw. Some basic facts are indisputable, however. Almost half of all arrests are of teen-agers and young adults; indeed, 15 is the peak age for violent crimes. Forty-four percent of the nation's murderers are 25 or younger, and 10% are under 18. Of those arrested for street crimes, excluding murder, fully 75% are under 25 and 45% are under...
...majority of criminals are male, but an increasing number of females are joining their ranks. Of those arrested for larceny-theft last year, 33% were female. Women are also becoming more violent. In the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, a gang of young black women has been assaulting and robbing dozens of old people for the past six months; two victims died of heart attacks that resulted from beatings by the gang...
...ever going to trial. The same is true for juvenile criminals. A study done by Marvin E. Wolfgang, a sociologist and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, showed that 627 out of 10,000 youths in Philadelphia became chronic offenders. They were responsible for two-thirds of the violent acts and 52% of all offenses committed by the group over an eight-year period...