How The Availability Of The Weapons With Fire Can Affect The Rates Of Crime Of Violen

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How The Availability Of The Weapons With Fire Can Affect The Rates Of Crime Of Violence?

The data collected on this subject are unarabiguous and they seem to indicate that the nuraber of people having a weapon with fire in an area or a given country affects the rates of crime of violence, and particularly on the rates of homicide. How is it made that such a report/ratio seems to exist? The answer is perhaps that the weapons with fire are quite simply the most effective instruments to commit offences like homicides; they help to commit an offence, that this one is made by a killer without pity, which acts with premeditation, or by somebody who cannot control his fury. This answer is perhaps exact, but it is very general and it does not explain why some of the causes of the report/ratio supposed between the availability of the weapons with fire and the crimes of violence.According to an assertion, one of the causes of this relationship between the availability of the weapons with fire and the homicides are the fact that the weapons with fire are more fatal than the others weapons and, consequently, more likely to cause a death when ways in fact and flights are made. This explanation is very valid and it is exposed further in the section entitled " the attacks perpetrated with a weapon with fire and the probability that they will involve serious wounRAB and deaths ".

Another reason for which the weapons with fire perhaps facilitate the perpetration of the crimes of violence is that they constitute an impersonal means and " clean " to cause an injury with another person while being held with a certain distance, in the case of too delicate people to cut the arteries of somebody with a sharp instrument or to fracture cranium of somebody with a heavy blunt instrument (Kleck and McElrath, 1991). In addition, these same authors announce as the presence of weapons with fire can prevent that attacks are not made, because they are regarded as dangerous and can reduce violence by making so that the victims offer less resistance when they are attacked. This last point is explained further in the section entitled " Presence of the weapons with fire and probability of the attacks ".

Researchers also announced that the fact that weapons with fire are available can be used to equalize the forces, in the case of the physically vulnerable people, while putting capable to make acts of violence of the people who, otherwise, would be unable to cause a serious injury with other people (Kleck and McElrath, 1991; Cook, 1981). In the West of formerly, one quoted the following proverb: " God created men -- Colonel Colt made them equal " (God created the men -- colonel Colt made so that they are equal).

Cook (in 1981) extended the application of this concept of vulnerability to people who are not physically vulnerable (like the frail people, the women, the children, old men). According to him, the weapons with fire can facilitate the perpetration of the crimes of violence when there is an irabalance of forces of a type or another between the delinquent and the possible victim. It supports for example that, when the victim is surrounded by guarRAB or army, it is usually necessary to use a weapon with fire. Cook announces that all the assassinations of presidents were made by means of a weapon with fire and that almost all the assassinated police officers were reached of a shot. It is possible to add certain flights to this list of targets which it would be difficult to attack without weapons with fire, as in the case of the armoured trucks or the flights of bank of great scale (Gabor and others, 1987).

In the field of the physical vulnerability, Cook showed that the men victims of homicide are more likely to be reached of a shot than the women victims of homicide; that the people whose age ranges between 20 and 44 years are more likely to be reached of a shot than the younger or older victims; finally, that a higher percentage women than men who assassinate unites them use a weapon with fire to this end.

Skogan (in 1978) added that fatal weapons available can encourage the robbers to continue their activity, because those put the delinquents able to attack more lucrative targets and, consequently, to increase their profits; that the hit ratio is higher, because the victims are more likely to reach their requests; finally, that the risk to cause wounRAB is weaker, because the victims are less likely to resist. The behavior of the robbers, like all other behavior, can thus be reinforced by the increased probability to obtain concrete results -- results which they are capable to obtain thanks to the availability of the weapons with fire.

Several authors also announced that the people present are much more likely of wounded beings, at the time of an attack perpetrated with a weapon with fire, that if it were perpetrated with a weapon of another type (Larsen, 1993; Colijn, To ballast and Slothouwer, 1985). The murders made during shootings at the wheel of a car are perhaps an increasingly frequent phenomenon and it is difficult to imagine how they could be made with others weapons that weapons with fire. Reiss and Roth (in 1993) added that the increase in the nuraber of weapons with fire which have the householRAB contributes to increase the nuraber of flights made in the residences, because the weapons flights constitute an appreciable proportion of the weapons with fire used to commit crimes (Wright and Rossi, 1985). It is as possible to declare as it is necessary to increase the nuraber of civil having a weapon with fire so that they are not attacked by criminals.
 
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