International Homicide Rates

[William S. Lear]

On Wednesday, August 18, 1999 at 14:23:16 (-0400) david dorkin writes:
>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).

Don't know of online sources, but if you can stand a trip to the
library/bookstore, you might try Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon
Hawkins, *Crime Is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America*
(Oxford, 1997), which takes a look at some international statistics.

Bill