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Find a news article of one of the types of crime discussed this week. Write a 2-page paper addressing the following questions:Provide a brief description of the crime.What does the crime data suggest about this type of crime?Does the article discuss the motive for the crime? If not, what are possible explanations?Was there a connection between the type of crime and the location of the crime?What prevention strategies could have been employed to reduce this type of crime?This
 paper should adhere to APA style standards including the following: 
Double space, 1” margins, title page, in text citation of references, 
and a reference page.

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Crime and Criminal Behaviour
Running Head: CRIME AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
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CRIME AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
Crime and Criminal Behaviour
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Crime and Criminal Behaviour
Spark, L. (2012). Are Mass Killings on the Increase? Criminologists Says No. CNN. Retrieved from 
Brief Description of the Crime
Spark in his article focuses on the crime of mass killing. Mass killing is an intentional and a sudden killing of a large number of people simultaneously over a short period (Kollar & Charles, n.d, p.63). 
Crime Data and Mass Killing
In January 2012, gun rampage left seven people dead in Oakland. In July 2011, eight people were reported dead during a shoot out in Seal Beach, California. On the same note, in 2012, an attack that was targeting Representative Gabriel Giffords left six people dead and thirteen people injured in Arizona. The crime data in the article though seems rampant; the author argues that mass killing has reduced in the US. In the article, Professor James Fox who is a criminologist at Boston’s North-eastern University asserts that despite the extensive media coverage on mass killings, there has been no upward trend as far as mass murder is concerned.
Spark details the rate of mass killings in campuses. He alleges that at Blacksburg Campus in Virginia, a 23-year-old student killed thirty-two people in a shooting spree before finally killing himself. On the same note, in 1999, at Colorado, a seventeen and eighteen year old from Columbine High School killed twelve students and the teacher before taking their lives in their school library. However,

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