{"id":6061,"date":"2009-01-22T01:55:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T06:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2010-12-10T03:42:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T08:42:04","slug":"distribution-of-arrests-drug-vs-violent-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/01\/22\/distribution-of-arrests-drug-vs-violent-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Distribution of Arrests: Drug Vs. Violent Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisuggen.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Uggen<\/a> put together a pie chart of U.S. arrests (FBI statistics 2007) in order to show that &#8220;only a small proportion of arrests involve violent crimes such as murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault&#8221; (see it <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisuggen.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/arrest-picture.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/01\/2007arrests.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6062\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/01\/2007arrests.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2007, only 4% of arrests were for violent crimes; another 12% were for crimes like burglary, theft, and arson; drug offenses (including drunkenness and DUIs) accounted for 31% of arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Uggen mentions that he shows this data, in part, to talk about the way in which arrests for drug offenses disrupt families and neighborhoods.\u00a0 Low income neighborhoods are devastated by the transfer (to put it nicely) of huge numbers of adult males to jails and prisons.\u00a0 Those men are not overwhelmingly\u00a0committing violent crimes (as stereotype suggest), but are imprisoned because of the intensive\u00a0policing of drug crimes in those neighborhoods.\u00a0 In another post, we put up a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/08\/02\/blackwhite-disparities-in-prison-sentences\/\" target=\"_self\">table<\/a> that showed how the &#8220;drug war&#8221; that started in the 1980s disproportionately affected blacks.<\/p>\n<p>For more on crime and imprisonment, see <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/03\/on-racial-profiling\/\" target=\"_self\">this post<\/a> on the ineffectiveness of racial profiling, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/20\/percentage-of-children-with-a-parent-in-prison-by-race\/\" target=\"_self\">this table<\/a> on the percentage of children with parents in prison by race, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/07\/27\/some-trends-in-imprisonment\/\" target=\"_self\">this table<\/a> that compares incarceration rates across countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Uggen put together a pie chart of U.S. arrests (FBI statistics 2007) in order to show that &#8220;only a small proportion of arrests involve violent crimes such as murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault&#8221; (see it here): In 2007, only 4% of arrests were for violent crimes; another 12% were for crimes like burglary, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,237,133],"class_list":["post-6061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-drugs","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6061"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30467,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions\/30467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}