Murder and Aggravated Assault Crimes

Increased by 6. 2 between 2014 and 2015 and decreased by six between 6. 0 between 2013 and 2014 ("Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) - National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)," n. d. The aggravated assault crime rates per 100000 people, on the other hand, decreased by 1. 5 National 3. 9 The rate of aggravated assault in Salem for the year 2016 was 216 crime incidents per 100000. According to Cramer (2017), the murder rates in Salem is 0. 02 per 1000 people while the murder rate in the entire US is 0. 05 per 1000 people. The victims of this crime range from children to adults and cuts across all the races. According to 2016 FBI report, handguns are the most common weapon used in a murder in the US followed by other types of firearms (Cook & Winfield, 2017, p. The other weapons used in this crime include knives, personal weapons blunt objects such as hammers, narcotics, fire, and strangulation.

According to FBI 2016 report, murder crime arrest rates where 3. 7 per 100000 people while the aggravated assault arrest rates were 119 per every 100000 persons in the US. The theory of social disorganization states that an individual’s physical and social environment plays a major role in the behavioral choice taken adopted by an individual. According to Henry and Shaw's social disorganization theory, location plays a vital role in crime prediction (Robinson, 2014, p. Based on this theory the perpetrators of murder and aggravated assault crimes resort to these activities due to poverty. This is depicted by the higher crime rates in the low-income areas. These people are trying to respond to the environmental conditions, besides immigration tend in the metropolitan areas tend to disadvantage the neighborhoods, the business activities close to these disadvantage group of people who are affected by ecological approach characterized by competition and dominance (Vaughn & Salas-Wright, 2017, p.