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Q: Guns and Violent Crime ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   1 Comment )
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Subject: Guns and Violent Crime
Category: Relationships and Society > Law
Asked by: bkthedj-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 28 Jan 2005 20:22 PST
Expires: 27 Feb 2005 20:22 PST
Question ID: 465166
I am trying to decide whether the proliferation of guns in the United
States contributes to the crime rate. As such, I would be grateful to
know a credible source to compare violent crime rates in the United
States against those in countries that have strict gun control laws
like the U.K. and Canada.
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Subject: Re: Guns and Violent Crime
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 29 Jan 2005 06:00 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
NationMaster

NationMaster.com is an excellent resource to obtain crime and other statistics .

?NationMaster.com is a massive central data source and a handy way to
graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of
data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations,
World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute,
UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD.?

Using the form provided, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds
of statistics with ease.

Instructions:

Select: country
Category: Crime
With Statistic: Select type of crime
Click on Generate Stat
http://www.nationmaster.com/


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The Failed Experiment: Gun Control and Public Safety in Canada,
Australia, England and Wales
Publication Date: November 2003
Publication Format: Public Policy Sources 
Author(s):  Gary Mauser, Professor, Simon Fraser University 

Executive Summary: 

?. . .In this study, the author examines crime trends in Commonwealth
countries that have recently introduced firearm regulations: i.e.,
Great Britain, Australia, and Canada. The widely ignored key to
evaluating firearm regulations is to examine trends in total violent
crime, not just firearms crime. Since firearms are only a small
fraction of criminal violence, the public would not be safer if the
new law could reduce firearm violence but had no effect on total
criminal violence.

The United States provides a valuable point of comparison for
assessing crime rates because the criminal justice system there
differs so drastically from those in Europe and the Commonwealth. Not
only are criminal penalties typically more severe in the United
States, often much more severe, but also conviction and incarceration
rates are usually much higer. Perhaps the most striking difference is
that qualified citizens in the United States can carry concealed
handguns for self-defence. During the past few decades, more than 25
states in the United States passed laws allowing responsible citizens
to carry concealed handguns. In 2003, there are 35 states where
citizens can get such a permit.

The upshot is that violent crime rates, and homicide rates in
particular, have been falling in the United States. The drop in the
American crime rate is even more impressive when compared with the
rest of the world.?

The  Fraser Institute
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?sNav=pb&id=604
Press Release
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?sNav=nr&id=570


Download the full text of this study (25 pages) here:
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/admin/books/files/FailedExperiment.pdf


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Canada

Violent crime in Canada
http://142.206.72.67/04/04b/04b_002a_e.htm
Chart
http://142.206.72.67/04/04b/04b_graph/04b_graph_002a_2e.htm

Statistics Canada provides an informative article with statistics and
graphs titled:
Crime comparisons between Canada and the United States
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/011218/d011218b.htm

See Crime statistics for Canada here:
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/040728/d040728a.htm


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UK

UK Crime Statistics
http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/sta_index.htm

Crime in England & Wales 2004
http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/statistics33.htm
Download here:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0304.html

Violent crime in England and Wales has risen 14%.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see crime rates graph 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3419401.stm

Violent crime on the rise
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1446260.stm

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Crime Statistics, Research and Analysis
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/crime_cicp_research.html


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Search criteria:
Violent crime rates +statistics

I hope this is helpful. 

Best regards,
Bobbie7
bkthedj-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $2.00

Comments  
Subject: Re: Guns and Violent Crimes
From: bobbie7-ga on 29 Jan 2005 07:52 PST
 
Thank you for the five stars and top!
--Bobbie7

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