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Not really. All we can really compare across national borders is the homicide rate, and the homicide rate of England and Wales is extremely low by global standards. Reporting and classification standards on crimes like assault varies dramatically even between police stations within the same cities, let alone trying to compare rates internationally.
Not really. All we can really compare across national borders is the homicide rate, and the homicide rate of England and Wales is extremely low by global standards.
the homicide rate for britain isn't very low worldwide for a developed country and scotland has even more violence read the reports your more LIKELY per capita to be murdered in glasgow, inner city london, belfast than in kabul, new york, LA, moscow,
country - number of violent crimes - rate per 100,000 residents
uk 1,158,957- 2,034
austria 133,546- 1,667
south africa 732,121- 1,609
sweden 108,004- 1,123
belgium 107,885- 1,006
canada 306,559- 935
finland 41,664- 738
holland 111,888- 676
france 324,765- 504
and the usa is 466 per 100,000 and australia is 92 per 100,000
source: The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S. | Mail Online
there it is in black and white, a more violent country than people think
Not really. All we can really compare across national borders is the homicide rate, and the homicide rate of England and Wales is extremely low by global standards. Reporting and classification standards on crimes like assault varies dramatically even between police stations within the same cities, let alone trying to compare rates internationally.
Scotland and Northern Ireland must be pretty violent then because the UN says Britain's homicide rate is roughly 92% that of the US and is above the rate for Latvia or Turkey.
That gives it a homicide rate the same as Kentucky had in 2007 or a bit above Ohio's of that year if you dislike comparisons to Kentucky. As the US average is higher than Britain's almost half of our states in 2007 had higher homicide rates than what the UN list for Britain. Those higher states are: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
The USA has the most people in jail so they must have the most violent society in the world.
america has a population of 310,871,790, and people do get sent to prison for fraud, vehicle crime, theft, not paying fines, not only violent crimes, the evidence is their britain is a more violent country than the usa, its FACT
usa 466 violent crimes per 100,000, uk 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000, thats more violent no matter what spin you put on it! so your 3 1/2 more times likely to be a victim of violent crime in britain than the usa FACT
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