article on the growth on crime rate
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almost without exception, Americans believe that violent crime is increasing. in the short run, they are right: violent crime did increase between 1985 and 1990. but what really worries most people is not the short- run trend but their sense that violent crime has been climbing steadily for a long time and that the future will only bring further increase. such worries are linked to anxiety about drugs, permissive childrearing, hedonism, declining academic standards, the growth of the ghetto under class and our collective inability to compete with Japanese. taken together, these fears have convinced many sensible people that American Society is on the skids.
America certainly has more violence than other rich countries. murder rates are far higher in the United States than in Europe, Japan or even Canada. we also have more rapes, robberies and assaults than other rich countries. but this is nothing new. crime rates have always been much higher in America than in other affluent nations. indeed, violence is part of our national mythology. we shed more blood settling our frontier than any other new world nation, and be made more movies glorifying the bloodshed. our struggle over slavery was also far bloodier than any other nation`s. we have lived with this grim haritage for a long time.