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Vol. 72, No. 4, April 1999 |
Figuratively Speaking
Percentage of juveniles arrested in the U.S. who admitted
to having stolen at least one gun:
25
Percentage of teenage deaths attributed to firearms in the
U.S.:
25
Number of juvenile handgun murders in the U.S. in 1984:
358
Number of juvenile handgun murders in the U.S. in 1994:
1,856
Source: Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 17, No.
1, October 1998
Estimated cost to taxpayers of health care fraud each year:
$100 billion
Estimated loss to U.S. businesses each year as a result of
software piracy:
$2.3 billion
Source: American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 35,
No. 3, Spring 1998
Model year in which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) made air bags mandatory in all vehicles:
1998
Number of passengers and drivers killed by air bags as of
1997:
85
Number of lives saved by airbags, according to the NHTSA:
1,100
Percentage by which they have reduced traffic fatalities:
11
Source: Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol.
48, No. 3, Spring 1998
Percentage of Americans who believe they no longer have control
over the distribution of their personal information:
80
Source: Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 8, No.
4, October 1998
Number of appeals that U.S. federal circuit courts received
in 1950:
2,830
In 1990, the number of these appeals filed:
41,000
Projected number of appeals that will face federal courts
in the year 2000:
90,114
Projected number that will be filed in the year 2010:
198,147
Projected number that will be filed in 2020:
428,203
Source: SMU Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 2, January-February
1997
Number of people over age 65 who were used as volunteers by
the FBI during 1997 and 1998 to aid in the crackdown of telephone
scams:
670
Number of potential victims who were warned by these volunteers:
8,600
Since 1995, the number of hours of telephone marketing scam
pitches that have been recorded by the volunteers working for
the FBI:
2,000
Number of individuals who have been charged or indicted for
their involvement in these phone scams:
1,400
Source: Christian Science Monitor, Vol. 90,
No. 164, July 20, 1998
Number by which welfare rolls in the U.S. have declined since
1990:
5 million
Source: Administrative Law Review, Vol. 50,
No. 3, Summer 1998
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