{"id":11715,"date":"2010-09-30T11:55:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T16:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=11715"},"modified":"2010-09-30T13:57:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T18:57:01","slug":"burglary-violence-and-the-armed-career-criminal-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2010\/09\/burglary-violence-and-the-armed-career-criminal-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Burglary, Violence, and the Armed Career Criminal Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov\/content\/pub\/pdf\/vdhb.pdf\">new report on victimization during household burglary<\/a>, which might have important implications for the application of the Armed Career Criminal Act.\u00a0 First, here are the report\u2019s highlights on the burglary-violence connection:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A household member is present in about one-quarter of\u00a0residential burlgaries.<\/li>\n<li>A household member is violently vicitmized in about seven percent of\u00a0residential burglaries (or about one-quarter of the burglaries in which a household member is present).<\/li>\n<li>In\u00a0residential burglaries, simple asault is the most common violent crime (3.7\u00a0percent of all burlgaries), while more serious violent crimes like rape (0.6 percent) and aggravated assault (1.3 percent) are far less frequent.<\/li>\n<li>In a majority of even the \u201cviolent\u201d burglaries, the victim indicates there is\u00a0no injury; a \u201cserious injury\u201d is sustained in only 8.5 percent of the violent burglaries.<\/li>\n<li>In the violent burglaries,\u00a0fewer than forty percent of the offenders are armed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, for the ACCA link.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As I describe in <a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2008\/09\/20\/begay-begone-acca-aaak\/\">this post<\/a>, Justice Scalia\u2019s preferred method for deciding whether a prior conviction\u00a0counts as\u00a0a \u201cviolent felony\u201d (three of which trigger the ACCA fifteen-year mandatory minimum prison term) involves statistical comparison between the dangerousness of the prior offense and the dangerousness of burglary.\u00a0 Moreover, as I describe in <a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2009\/01\/13\/in-the-supreme-court-acca-is-back-a\/\">this post<\/a>, there is reason to think that Scalia\u2019s statistical approach is gaining traction on the Court.\u00a0 (With cert. recently granted in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesentencesblog.com\/?p=145\">new ACCA case<\/a>, we may soon\u00a0see more evidence of the shift.)\u00a0 If the statistical approach becomes more important in applying ACCA, then the BJS\u2019s new burlgary data may prove a critically important touchstone in the analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few additional interesting bits of data from the BJS report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The U.S. averages about 3.7 million household burglaries per year.<\/li>\n<li>Renters are almost twice as likely to\u00a0experience burglary\u00a0as home-owners.<\/li>\n<li>Poor people are more likely to experience burglary than the well-off, and young people more than old.<\/li>\n<li>In nearly half of burglaries, the property loss is less than $250.<\/li>\n<li>Burglaries frequently go unreported to the police (more than forty-seven percent of cases when no household member was present and more than forty-one percent of cases when a household member was present).<\/li>\n<li>Belying the common association between burglary and shadowy strangers, offenders are known to their victims in nearly two-thirds of violent burglaries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cross posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesentencesblog.com\/?p=173#more-173\">Life Sentences<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has issued a new report on victimization during household burglary, which might have important implications for the application of the Armed Career Criminal Act.\u00a0 First, here are the report\u2019s highlights on the burglary-violence connection: A household member is present in about one-quarter of\u00a0residential burlgaries. 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