International Homicide Rates

[david dorkin]

Thanks-but how can some of those entries be? Sweden and the Netherlands
have very high rates as high or higher than the BJS US figure -I had
found another site with figures that seemed more accurate that also
included the US but I cant remember which one it was.

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> david dorkin wrote:
> 
> >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