control crime in America.To begin to do this, as our book Sociology by Jon

M. Shepard states, we must recognize the extent to which crime occurs.

Their are eight index crimes: murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated

assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson. In 1995, the

number of index crimes totaled 13,867,143.When we compare the crime

rates to those of other countries we see that the United States has the highest

murder, rape and robbery rates. What can we do to decrease the rate of

Personally, I think that the best way to

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