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Crime is not random, but exhibits certain regularities. It occurs more frequ
Crime is not random, but exhibits certain regularities. It occurs more frequ
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2023-09-17
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Crime is not random, but exhibits certain regularities. It occurs more frequently at certain times, in certain groups, at certain places, and under certain conditions. That is to say, crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years ago. Police records that were studied for five years from over 2,400 cities and towns correspondingly show a surprising link between changes in the season and crime patterns.
The pattern of crime has varied very little over a long period of years. For particular types of crime, e.g. murder or robbery, variation occurs by season, day, and time of occurrence. Generally speaking, murder is more likely to occur during the late spring and summer, peaking in July and August, as are rape and other violent attacks. Moreover, murder, is more than seasonal: it is a weekend crime. It is also a nighttime crime: 62 percent of murders are committed between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Unlike the summer high in crimes of bodily harm, burglary has a different cycle. It is reported that robbery occurs more frequently in the cold winter months reaching its peak during the holiday season. That’s why you are most likely to be robbed between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. on a Saturday night in December, January, or February. What is the most uncriminal month of all? May—except for one strange statistic. More dog bites are reported in this month than in any other month of the year.
Apparently our intellectual seasonal cycles are completely different from our criminal tendencies. Professor Huntington, of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, made extensive studies to discover the seasons when people read serious books, attend scientific meetings, make the highest scores on examinations, and propose the most changes to patents. In all instances, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak separated by a summer low. On the other hand, Professor Huntington’s studies indicated that June is the peak month for suicides and admissions to mental hospitals. June is also a peak month for marriages!
Possibly soaring thermometers and high humidity bring on our strange and terrifying summer actions, but police officials are not sure. "There is, of course, no proof of a connection between humidity and murder," they say. "Why murder’s high time should come in the summertime we really don’t know."
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crime has its own cycles/crime exhibits some regularities
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语义推断题。提问的实质是文章的主题。原文第1句是主题句,随后的第3句用That is to say引出另一种方式来点明主题,故答案可以从这两句得出。
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