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Definition of Crime rate
1. Noun. The ratio of crimes in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crime Rate
Literary usage of Crime rate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The City: Urban Communities and Their Problems by Alan S. Berger (1978)
"Calculating the crime rate The FBI calculates the crime rate by dividing the ...
In fact, the crime rate declined between 1933 and 1942, and only since then ..."
2. Bridging Gaps in Police Crime Data by Michael D. Maltz (2000)
"Most observers believe that the effect on the estimate of the overall crime rate
in the United States would be minimal, but that it could be quite ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"As the death-rate is believed to vary inversely as health and longevity and thus
to afford a measure of those characteristics, so the crime-rate is often ..."
4. Highlights from 20 Years of Surveying Crime Victims: National Crime by Marianne W. Zawitz (1993)
"... the violent crime rate for young people has been increasing Violent crime rate
Personal theft rate 12-15 65 and over *\ __ ____ , 1973 1978 1983 1988 ..."
5. Criminal Victimisation in the Developing World edited by Ugljesa Zvekic, Anna Alvazzi Del Frate (1996)
"A similar trend was revealed for the average monthly crime rate. ... The monthly
crime rate for theft declined by 17.8% while the more violent crime or ..."
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