he given chart illustrates the level of serious violent crime namely rape, robbery, aggravated assault and homicide between 1978 and 2000.

The line graph depicts the number of violent

crimes

, which are rape, robbery, aggravated assault and homicide, categorised by total violent

crime

, victimisations reported to

police

and

crimes

recorded by

police

in the United States between 1978 and 2000.

Overall

, it is apparent that the figures for both total violent

crime

and

crime

reported by victims fluctuated from 1978 and 1986,

then

tended to decrease for the rest of the recorded period.

In addition

, the quantities of

crimes

recorded by

police

and arrested for violence experienced a rising trend during the period between 1978 and 2000. Diving into the detail, the Total experienced a high number of nearly 3500 in 1978 followed by Victimisations reported to

police

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around 2200. Throughout the period of time, those levels witnessed a fluctuation before starting to fall down, which were nearly 3000 for Total violent

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and approximately 1500 for Victimisations reported to the

police

.

On the other hand

,

crimes

recorded by

police

witnessed a slight upward from approximately 800 to 1800 between 1978 and 1994 before going down/ reducing/ diminishing to 1600 in 2000. Continuously, the arrests for violent

crime

gradually increased from nearly 250 to 600 during 1978 and 1986 prior to fluctuating and reaching 900 in 1996

then

flowed consistently around 700 till 2000.