Talk:List of countries by homicide rate

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Create latest data table: country, year of data, and rate. -- Jeandré, 2006-12-23t20:47z This is for the map. Should the cut off be at 10, 5, 3 years? -- Jeandré, 2007-01-21t06:17z Create latest data table: country, year of data, and rate. -- Jeandré, 2006-12-23t20:47z This is for the map. Should the cut off be at 10, 5, 3 years? -- Jeandré, 2007-01-21t06:17z Some historic data for Canada could be calculated using the murder data from Z21 here and the population from A1 here. I don't know if dividing 2 numbers counts as original research though, I hope not. JMiall 18:38, 17 January 2007 (UTC) "more discussion of the differing methodologies used to gather the data" -- Zantastik, 2007-01-17t20:33z 1998 and 1999 Trinidad and Tobago PDF -- Guettarda, 2007-01-21t04:20z Search for individual countries' data, begining with African countries not on the map. -- Jeandré, 2007-01-21t06:31z Incorporate Geni: "Reassessing the Cross-National Relationship Between Income Inequality and Homicide Rates: Implications of Data Quality Control in the Measurement of Income Distribution" - Steven F. Messner, Lawrence E. Raffalovich and Peter Shrock "Demographic, Temporal, and Spatial Patterns of Homicide Rates in Russia" -- Jeandré, 2007-01-29t18:44z South Africa 2006 -- Jeandré, 2007-01-29t19:27z

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[edit] See also.

• USA states 1995/2005 [1].
• USA cities 2003 [2]. -- Jeandré, 2006-12-06t21:18z
• Colomboa cities [co-ccr2005] p. 118. -- Jeandré, 2006-12-23t20:47z

[edit] Moving article

Heya gang. I propose that we rename this article to "List of countries by homicide rate", and replace all instances of "murder" with "homicide" in the article. This is because "murder" is a very specific kind of homicide, and by definition would exclude manslaughter or unsolved killings. I'll do this in a couple hours unless somebody has objections. As I understand it, this article is meant to cover "killings", right? Please let me know if I am mistaken. -Taco325i 01:21, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't know if this is correct. Possibly the reported rates are sometimes for all homicides and sometimes for just murder. For example, the latest figures for South Africa from the South African police (http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/crimestats/2006/categories.htm) give a murder rate of 39.5 per 100 000 for April 2005 to April 2006. Total murders pluse culpable homicides (the two catagories of homicide in SA law) are 66 per 100 000 for the same period. Since the murder rate has been declining in SA for the last few years, I assume that it is this rate that is reported in the figures, not the total homicide rate. Whether the article is headed murder or homicide, the figures probably need to be cleaned up. Brutus42 13:00, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] And Iraq?

Iraq is not included in many of the lists. I think the ongoing violence and the different reports by different organizations might make it hard to find a reliable source. But still it should be included in the list.

This link might be useful: http://newsbusters.org/node/9932

Rmleon 02:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)