Crime as a Social Indicator Crime is regarded as a major social problem due to its inherent nature as a threat to society as a whole, and to the individuals who live in that society. Crime reduction and prevention has been, and always will remain to be a top priority of the legislative, execu...

Columbia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Columbia in 1830. A fourty year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Columbian government escalated during the 1990s, under girded in part by funds from the drug trade. Although the violence is deadly and large swath...