Research Project on Crime in Major Cities

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Introduction
Crime in major cities has been very rampant in the recent decade. This has been attributed to
various causes such as the use of drugs by the youth, high unemployment rates and peer
influence (Brewer & Grabosky, 2014). A number of measures have also been put by various
governments to help curb the crimes. One of the major steps adopted by the US government
through department of security to help aid the fight against crime is collecting and storing crime
data in a database for analysis purposes (Higginson & Mazerolle, 2014). The data thus
collected help to identify the most rampant type of crimes and their locations among other things.
This has helped a great deal to curb crimes though with a lot of challenges (Crawford, 2009).
Table of distribution of victims’ descent by gender
GENDER
VICTIM DESCENT F H M X
Grand
Total
A 260 252 512
B 1373 1762 3135
C 3 5 8
F 11 4 15
H 2484 1 3372 5857
I 5 7 12
J 4 1 5
K 19 35 54
O 490 1096 1586
P 3 3 6
W 1093 1804 2897
X 7 26 68 101
Grand Total 5752 1 8367 68 14188
Table 1
The pivot table above shows the distribution of victims’ descent by gender. The number of
victims that were sampled in the data was 14,188 in total. As can be observed from the table
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above, majority of the victims were of H descent. They were 5857 in total. They are followed by
victims of B descent who were 3135 in total. The victims who followed third in number were of
W descent. They were 2897 in number. The least number of victims were of J descent (5)
followed by P descent (6) then C descent (8). On the other hand, it can be observed that majority
of the victims were males as compared to females. They were 8367 while their female
counterparts were 5752.
Table of distribution of victims by type of arrest and area of origin
AREA NAME
Adult
Arrest
Adult
Other
Invest
Cont
Juv
Arrest
Juv
Other
Grand
Total
77th Street 1 2 12 15
Central 916 1118 7987 25 11 10057
Devonshire 13 13
Foothill 5 1 6
Mission 12 12
N Hollywood 1 4 5
Newton 1 3 13 17
Northeast 2 8 10
Olympic 1 3 8 12
Pacific 3 2 15 20
Rampart 623 742 3351 65 8 4789
Southeast 7 7
Topanga 16 16
Van Nuys 4 5 9
West Valley 2 9 11
Grand Total 1547 1877 11465 90 20 14999
Table 2
The study also sought to establish the distribution of victims by type of arrest and area of origin.
From table 2 above, it can be observed that majority (10,057) of victims of crime came from
Central. This is followed distantly by the victims from Rampart. The other locations had few
cases of arrests were generally equally distributed. On the other hand, when it comes to
categories of arrest, majority had invest cont (11,465). This was followed distantly by other types
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