Violence
Assault and Aggravated Assault
aggrevated
simple
Who Is More Likely to Kill?
Southerners
"culture of violence"
the poor
financial, marital, and other stressful problems
over 90%
blacks
most killings are intra racial
men
men age 18-24
Patterns of Killing
Time of Killing
committed in the heat of passion
increase in summer
decrease in winter