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Norval Morris and Gordon Hawkins contend that the attempt to govern public order offenses like prostitution causes a number of secondary problems that aggravate the crime problem:  

The “unlawful attack” by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury:

A mass murderer often has long spans of time between the killing(s):

According to class lectures and discussion, “crime, criminality, and deviance” can each be understood as being:              

A framework and theoretical construct that is used to describe and compare different forms of criminal behavior:

A proletariat is also known as the working class:  

In rational choice theory, decisions about whether or not to engage in crime in general, as opposed to satisfying the needs and wants with criminal alternatives;

Within Marxist theory, the working class:

Crimes that are considered as “evil in themselves” (e.g., homicide):

An annual report published by the FBI since 1930 consisting of crimes reported to and uncovered by police.  Currently this report is the major source of nationwide data, containing information from most U.S. jurisdictions: