Document Type

Report

Publication Date

8-28-2019

Publication Title

Criminal Justice Fact Sheet No. 1

Publisher

The Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West

First page number:

1

Last page number:

10

Abstract

Criminal arrests in Southern Nevada are on a downward trend. Despite a record-setting influx in population across the Las Vegas Valley and the surrounding metro area, officers in each of Clark County’s police jurisdictions arrest fewer people every year. The present study utilizes the Arrest Trends Tool created by the Vera Institute of Justice and the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program to measure the number of arrests made over ten years for a variety of illegal activities, including drug abuse, violence and murder, property crimes, sex crimes, alcohol-related crimes, theft, white collar crimes, and other offenses. This data set summarizes arrest trends from 2006 to 2016—before, during, and after the Great Recession—to examine the implications of static versus changing crime rates. In keeping with the current findings regarding policing and prisons in the U.S., this study is meant to gauge the contingent levels of convictions and incarcerations in Nevada's most populous metro.

Keywords

Criminal justice; Crime rates; Arrest data; Arrest trends; Population; Great Recession; Clark County; Nevada

Disciplines

Criminal Law | Public Affairs | Public Policy | Urban Studies

File Format

pdf

Run Time

818 Kb

Language

English

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