How Do You Compare the crime statistics of one country to another?

What factors would you take into consideration?


How do you weigh in population size and what not?

How Do You Compare the crime statistics of one country to another?
First of all you have to recognise that the recording of crime may differ, as will cultural and social issues relating to the reporting of crime, such issues could range from dometsic violence, rape, abortion through to what constitutes a violent crime.





For instance in the UK even the most trivial crimes are recorded and nearly half of all violent crime results in no injury to anyone whatsoever. Whilst in America most recorded crime consists of felonies or more serious offences.





Secondly you have to be aware of double counting, for instance if somebody is arrested for one offence such as hitting someone numerous other charges can result from the same incident from criminal damage relatinng to breaking the persons glasses, to resisting arrest, public order offences as well as assault and battery. All of these separate recorded figures could be the result of one offence, and some countries such as the UK are prone to double counting.





The size of the population is not an issue as crimes per capita (per person) is often indicated rather than the population as a whole. However the size and relability of any international survey is important, and a survey using a vary small sample is usually regarded as less reliable than one that uses a much larger sample group, finally methodology or how data is collected is also extremely important.





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Sir Ian Blair Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police recently made a highly critical speech regarding the recording of London knife crime figures with a stabbing with a needle or even a cocktail stick being defined as a knife crime. The same is true of other crimes, with definitions being far wider than in many other countries.





http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2...





In New York City if a theft is reported to the police and the value of the thing stolen is less than $500, then the offense is a misdemeanor it will not be reported to the FBI and will be excluded from crime figures. The police themselves are in the position of having to determine what the fair market value of the stolen property is, and the police are under constant pressure to downgrade crime in order to meet figures.





Likewise, the majority of violent felonies are called “aggravated assault.” While they are included in the UCR, simple assaults are not. A “simple assault” is one that either does not involve a “deadly weapon” or does not involve “serious” injury.





Again, the arresting officer is often able to characterize the “deadliness” of the weapon or the “seriousness” of the assault to determine whether or not a felony is being reported to them. (Some prosecutors even ask how many stitches it took to stop the bleeding in order to determine if a felony or misdemeanor was committed)





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Then again when have Statistics ever revealed the true picture.
Reply:You can't, each country has different elements to various crimes and because of laws concerning evidence and custody, convictions, search and seizure, arrests and other actions, results will be different. In truth, the best thing you can do is use common sense.
Reply:I normally go to www.nationmaster.com, they have per


capita crime statistics.





When looking at per capita population size is no longer a factor it is simply how many crimes per 100 or thousand people
Reply:it is almost impossible to do so for many different reasons


culture or upbringing by the parents and family means of jobs and money and "" religion "" has no influence on crime either look at the latin americas CRIME IS VERY HIGH

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