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ORIGINAL: YN

Have at it - http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/additional-ucr-publications/age_race_arrest93-01.pdf

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

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Unlikely.....the people pushing drugs are generally young, the life expectancy is pretty short, and most of them fall into the 18-24 year old category. So in the early 80s, you might have had some at the tail end of the baby boom (1960-1964), but by the time the drug wars really heated up, in the late 80's and 90's, you were dealing with gen x.

1964 would have been 18 in 1982.

If you reference back to the chart here http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=4458412

You will see many of those in the "boomer" years were between 5 and 15 in 1970. By 1980, they were between 15 and 25... the target group we are discussing here.

By 1990, they were between 25 and 35. If a generation grows up with the violence that the boomer generation got into, they will continue that violence up to a later age.

In 1947, 3.8 million babies came into the world and there were 3.9 million in 1952. Over 4 million babies were born each year from 1954 until the end of the boom in 1964. At that time, they were over 40 percent of the population in the United States.

http://www.babyboomermedia.com/facts-about-baby-boomers/#ixzz2V7pWQAKb

Between 1970 and 1990, violent crime saw upward mobility... in line with the aging of 40% of the population.

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I have seen studies that indicate that up to about 35 the crime rate is higher than for the general. Still they concur that 18-25 is the worst.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

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I have seen studies that indicate that up to about 35 the crime rate is higher than for the general. Still they concur that 18-25 is the worst.

Something I have never denied. Yet the early 90's saw a very violent time in our history as well...and they werent all teenagers involved.

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There is seldom a single answer to a problem but I agree that demographics answer most of it.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

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There is seldom a single answer to a problem but I agree that demographics answer most of it.

Which is pretty much my point. Take a population explosion to 40% of the population concentrated in a small age bracket and their problems of that age group will be magnified and reflected in the data.

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A majority of crimes worldwide, save fraud/embezzlement crimes of the type you call "white collar" is committed by those in the 18-25 year cohort.

here is a sample from the UK, though similar graphs are available worldwide

Offenders as a percentage of the population by age, 2006, England and Wales -

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ORIGINAL: BamaD
Still they concur that 18-25 is the worst.

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ORIGINAL: njlauren
much was attributed to to changes in policing methods, pressure pointing troubled areas, and also the broken window theory of policing, i.e instead of concentrating on high level dealers and ignoring low level crimes, they pressure pointed even low level crimes and found, for example, that pulling people for low level crimes resulted in getting guns off the streets and so forth.