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what are you learning here. >> shep, according to recent fbi statistics, crime rates are down across the country. if you dig further into numbers what you find are pockets where violent crime suspect. in rural parts of the country the murder rate rose by nearly 2%. a similar increase was seen about 5%. in cities of 50,000 or less. and in michigan second highest unemployment rate in the country a 13%. arson is up 43% in the first six months of this year. and veteran cops say the data is not surprising. >> there is a correlation between the unemployment rate and an individual's hostility, you know, towards some stuff and society. the community in which he lives in. >> the evidence is antidotal but there are reports that domestic abuse numbers are also up, shep. >> shepard: as it turns out, not surprisingly, men are likely to get more violent than women? >> that's right. the law enforcement and mental health experts we spoke to said men are more at risk than women. there something called the family annihilator syndrome.
abuse, and assault in different parts of the country, jon. jon: who's most at risk here? >> well, the law enforcement and mental health experts we spoke to said men are more at risk than women. there's something called the family annihilator syndrome -- syndrome when men in some cases commit murder-suicide on their own families and one health expert said chronic unemployment weighs more heavily on men who are seen by society as the traditional breadwinner. >> men will tend to take it harder, it hits their egos harder. now, that's not to say that women don't suffer emotionally when they lose a job or they can't find a job, but they seem to be a little bit more stable in dealing with some of those issues, and are able to tap into other resources, subsidies, with less of the stress on their egos, versus men. >> reporter: what the doctor says is you have to look for some of the typical warning signs, like depression, loss of