>I was looking around for studies, data and comparisons of international
>homicide rates; anyone know of good online sources (I did find a good UN
>organization document but I dont remember where).
UNDP's Human Development Report. The front end for the Acrobat version is at <http://www.undp.org/hdro/report.html#stats>; the stat supplement is at <http://www.undp.org/hdro/Backmatter2.pdf>. You want table 23, "Crime." Incredibly, they don't have a figure for the U.S.! According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, it was 9.0/100,000 people in 1994 (the year shown in the HDR).
Doug