Research Method

The Research method I chose was survey's. There are many valid survey's in the world pertaining to things such as alcohol and violent crime, drugs and violent crime, even relationship status' and violent crime. Using survey's as my research method will allow myself to gain further knowledge on violent crime occurring in the world and have a better understanding of my topic. 

Just When You Thought You Had Heard of it All...

Sperm smuggling. Not something you hear of everyday... Dalal al-Ziben husband has been inside an Israeli prison for 16 years and will likely never get out, but that doesn't stop her from having children. As expected in conservative Palestinian society Dalal must stay faithful to her husband, with nothing to do but wait and hope for her husband to some day be released. 

Al-Ziben says she got pregnant by her husband because he managed to have his sperm smuggled out of high security prison. Her argument being that a wife of a prisoner should not have to suffer and stay without children and a family.

Rimah Silawi is another Palestinian women making the same claim. Her husband is serving multiple life sentences and she too says she received In Vitro fertilization using sperm smuggled from inside an Israeli prison. 

These women are open to tell people about their babies, but how exactly their husband's semen was smuggled goes unspoken. 

McCarthy: Increased Police Presence Lowers Violent Crime in February

In North Lawndale, Chicago violent crime is down in popular violent areas in result of the placement of at least 200 cops working overtime conduct nightly patrols. Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said that 200 more officers  to soon hit the streets to target other problem areas of the city. Just last month, the superintendent launched a “strategic saturation” program that sends the 200 overtime cops to 10 violent crime hotspots across the city each night, this all in response to a bloody 2012 that saw more than 500 homicides along with the most murders in January in more than a decade. 

Hopefully the positive effects of increased law enforcement in well-known trouble areas of Chicago will cause other major cities to do the same. I feel that if other cities decide to follow Chicago's steps there will be major changes in crime rates, which at a time where crime rates are higher than ever, taking precaution is necessary. 

Disabled People and Violent Crimes

Research by the government has proven that people with disabilities are 50 percent more likely to be victims of violent crimes than are people without disabilities. There is a wild rage of disable people who are victims of violent crime, disabilities include: blindness, deafness, developmentally disabled, and other physical and mental limitations. The study by the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics said instances of violence against disabled people occurred overall 1½ times the rate of those without disabilities, but the numbers varied by age group. Disabled people from ages 12 to 19 and 35 to 49 are most vulnerable for victimization. The study found that people with cognitive disabilities such as mental retardation, developmental disabilities and cerebral palsy represented the largest group of victims. 

Below is a chart of violent crimes committed from 2009-2011 comparing crimes involving people with disabilities and people without. Although people will disabilities have a lower total number, the number of assaults against them is shocking. It's important to keep in mind that just because the numbers of assaulted disabled people is lower than the average person doesn't mean that they're not victimized. Disabled people are not as easy to come by as an average pedestrian, that could also play a key part in why the numbers don't match up. But, I can guarantee a person looking to a commit a violent crime would chose a disabled person over a healthy person if they had the choice too. 

                          Persons with Disabilities                        Persons without Disabilities
Type of crime         2009        2010          2011          2009             2010          2011
Total                      999,060   870,590     922,900     5,032,300    4,432,020   4,446,400
Serious crime         310,580   337,960     401,090     1,673,730    1,494,420   1,371,240
Rape/sexual assault 44,330    33,580       58,600        283,310       253,490     197,590
Robbery                135,250   141,130     143,630      522,180       460,670      419,000
Aggravated assault 131,010   163,250     198,860      868,240       780,260      754,660
Simple assault        688,470    532,630     521,810     3,358,570    2,937,600   3,075,15