[Vision2020] Crime in Moscow

[J Ford]

Ok, so I'll bite:

Uh - WHAT?!!!

So soliders, those young men who are more likely to commit these types of 
crimes, are out of country but this does not stop our homicide rate from 
going up during times of war?

Is that what you said?


J  :]





>From: Debbie Gray <graylex at yahoo.com>
>To: mushroom at moscow.com, vision2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] "Murder" rate in Moscow
>Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 23:35:01 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Also, one of those 7 was really a suicide (Jason
>Hamilton). So there were actually 6 homicides:  David
>Boss, Crystal Hamilton, Lee Newbill, Paul Bauer,
>Jeremiah Johnson and Tyler Lee.
>
>Way back when i was taking criminal justice /sociology
>classes, we discussed a theory about the rate of
>violent crimes, esp. homicides increasing during times
>of war despite the fact that many of the population
>more likely to commit violent crimes (young men age
>18-30ish I think) were out of country.  I think it was
>Emile Durkheim and had something to do with strong
>national sentiments and war providing a tacit approval
>towards violence/homicides. But i cant remember
>clearly, just remember it was a fascinating theory!
>
>Debbie
>
>
>--- Don Coombs <mushroom at moscow.com> wrote:
>
> > According to a headline in this morning's Daily
> > News,
> > the "rash of violent crimes have taken toll on
> > Moscow,
> > Latah County." The story says "Despite concerns,
> > Latah
> > County's murder rate isn't high when comparing it to
> >
> > similarly-sized counties."
> >
> > And: "With seven murders and 35,600 people in Latah
> > County, the murder rate is .019 murder per 100,000
> > people this year.... In the United States, the
> > overall
> > murder rate was 5.6 per 100,000 in 2006."
> >
> > People at the newspaper apparently had no problem
> > with
> > a murder rate of .019 per 100,000. Actually, if you
> > accept that there have been seven murders, the rate
> > is
> > easily calculated to be about 19 per 100,000.
> >
> > Also: Some of the homicides were murders, but with
> > living suspects the term would be best saved for
> > application after they are found guilty of that
> > specific crime.
> >
> > Don Coombs
> >
> >
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