CARJACKINGS MORE NUMEROUS THAN THOUGHT.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times There are an estimated 49,000 carjackings a year, a far higher figure than criminologists had believed, the Justice Department reported Sunday in the first comprehensive study of the crime. Almost half of the carjackings involved the use of a gun, and in 16 percent of the cases a victim was injured, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics Noun 1. Bureau of Justice Statistics - the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makers BJS , a branch of the Justice Department. But despite the large number of carjackings, only an estimated average of 27 people were killed each year in the 1990s in carjackings. The estimate, of an average of 48,787 carjackings annually from 1992 to 1996, amounts to 10 percent of the average of 500,000 reported robberies a year, said Alfred Blumstein Alfred Blumstein is an American scientist and the professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research at the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the top researchers in criminology and operations research. , a professor of criminology at Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). . The professor noted that the most common place for robberies, outside the home, is convenience stores The following is a list of convenience stores organized by geographical location. Stores are grouped by the lowest heading that contains all locales in which the brands have significant presence. , the site for 5.7 percent of robberies each year, about equal to the proportion of carjackings. The next-most-frequent location is gas stations, the site for 2.4 percent of robberies. One reason for the rise in the number of carjackings, Blumstein said, is that in recent years automobile manufacturers have made major improvements in ``hardening the ignition of cars, making them less easy to hot-wire and steal.'' As a result, more thieves have had to get the key from the owner of the car to steal it, he said. |
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