A Research of the Crime in State Nevada

The state of Nevada is one of the 50 states in America; located 39 148 to the north and 119743 to the east. What makes this state a pleasant place to live in is its low cost of living, due less tax imposition, and low pollution, however crime rates are a warring trend here. According to the federal laws, each state has the freedom of maintaining its own independent jurisdiction in the areas of criminal justice system. As a matter of state policy, each state is responsible of determining what constitutes a crime with an appropriate form of punishment (Wilson 1987). In the past several years, the crime rate in Nevada has been on the increase according to a report from the FBIs (UCR). The most common nature of crimes in the state of Nevada is property crimes and violent crimes. In the city of Las Vegas only, the property crime rate is 57,552 while that of violent crime rate is 9,158. Most of the crimes begun in 1981 but its peak was in the mid 1990s a time when the state was introducing casinos. Since the operations of casinos begun, the rates of major crime rates increased to 6.7% as compared to when there were no casinos. The crimes involved murder, , property offences like burglary and larceny. When this number is compared to the national chart trend, it is evidently higher by about 1.26 times during the 1990s, a time when there was a tremendous decrease in violent crime rates in United States (Glase and Palla 2004). A notable difference is that Nevada is listed to be one of the last states to record a decrease in crime rate compared to the rest of the states. There was a drop after the mid 1990s crisis but soon after the in the state begun to rise in the year 2000 (Nevada Division of Child & Family Servicesnd).