Organized Crime In The New Millennium

were female. For women in the US, homicide is the leading cause of death in the
workplace.
In the US, murder is the leading cause of death for African American males aged 15 to
34. Between 1976 and 2008, African Americans were victims of 329,825 homicides. In
2006, Federal Bureau of Investigation's Supplementary Homicide Report indicated that
nearly half of the 14,990 murder victims that year were Black (7421). In the year 2007,
there were 3,221 black victims and 3,587 white victims of non-negligent homicides.
While 2,905 of the black victims were killed by a black offender, 2,918 of the white
victims were killed by white offenders. There were 566 white victims of black offenders
and 245 black victims of white offenders. The "white" category in the Uniform Crime
Reports (UCR) includes non-black Hispanics. In London in 2006, 75% of the victims of
gun crime and 79% of the suspects were "from the African/Caribbean community".
Murder demographics are affected by the improvement of trauma care, which has
resulted in reduced lethality of violent assaults – thus the murder rate may not
necessarily indicate the overall level of social violence.
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