Title: Neighborhoods and Violent Crime | HUD USER
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Content: 1). 9 The homicide rate also dropped by nearly half over the same period, from 8.2 per 100,000 inhabitants to 4.5. 10 And according to the National Crime Victimization Survey, by 2014, the violent victimization rate — that is, the rate at which people are victims of violent crime — dropped to 20.1 per 1,000 persons, only about a quarter of 1993’s rate of 79.8. 11 Compared to other wealthy nations, modern rates of violent crime in the United States are not exceptional, though homicide rates remain “probably the highest in the Western world.” 12 In particular, gun violence is far more common in the U.S. than in other Western nations. 13
Source: Jennifer L. Truman and Lynn Langton. 2015. “ Criminal Victimization, 2014,” Bureau of Justice Statistics. No consensus exists on a single cause for the massive American decline in crime.