Crime > Total crimes: Countries Compared
Author: Edria Murray, Staff editor
Willingness to report crime and confidence in the police and legal system influence the rate of reported crime. Over half of U.S citizens feel that they can report crime to the police, and 73% have confidence in the police and the legal system. In addition to this, the United States has the highest ranking for belief in police efficiency with 89% of respondents stating that the police do a good job in controlling crime in their area.
Citation
"Countries Compared by Crime > Total crimes. International Statistics at NationMaster.com", The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention). Aggregates compiled by NationMaster. Retrieved from http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Total-crimes
The 2002 National Crime Victimization Survey conducted by the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics showed that total violent victimization and property crime rates in the U.S. were lower that year than they had been any year since the survey started in 1973. Between 1993 and 2002, the violent crime rate declined 54 percent and the property crime rate decreased by 50 percent.
This decrease is even more dramatic when you consider that an estimated 49 percent of violent crimes and 40 percent of property crimes were reported to police. In 1993, reporting rates were estimated at 43 percent for violent crimes and 34 percent for property crimes.
Posted on 01 Mar 2005
Ian Graham, Staff Editor
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Willingness to report crime and confidence in the police and legal system influence the rate of reported crime. Over half of U.S citizens feel that they can report crime to the police, and 73% have confidence in the police and the legal system. In addition to this, the United States has the highest ranking for belief in police efficiency with 89% of respondents stating that the police do a good job in controlling crime in their area.
Posted on 18 Mar 2005
Edria Murray, Staff editor
27th December 2012
"Compare the crime numbers with population:
US population 315,000,000 Crimes 12,000,000
UK population 63,000,000 Crimes 6,500,000
Geman population 82,000,000 Crimes 6,500,000
Canada population 35,000,000 Crimes 2,500,000
You do the math."
Throw some logic in while you're at it.
DEFINITION: Note: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
Posted on 10 Feb 2013
That Dude
Posted on 01 Feb 2013
Tran Thang
Posted on 11 Jan 2013
Kids
The U.S. is #27, a far cry from the number 1 position implied in this list.
Other than to make some sort of an ideological point villifying the United States I can't figure out why a misleading list like this would be published without qualifiers.
Wanna bet the same people who embrace this list for the ingenuous way it misrepresnts would denounce it when population is factored in to show the truth?
Posted on 11 Jan 2013
WIlliam Konietzny
Posted on 29 Dec 2012
Alex
US population 315,000,000 Crimes 12,000,000
UK population 63,000,000 Crimes 6,500,000
Geman population 82,000,000 Crimes 6,500,000
Canada population 35,000,000 Crimes 2,500,000
You do the math.
Posted on 28 Dec 2012
markenoff
Posted on 24 Dec 2012
Chelly
Posted on 14 Dec 2012
BM
Wrong.
These are TOTAL numbers not percentages. The united states actually has a lower rate than Germany, UK, australia and most of Europe.
Posted on 14 Dec 2012
Max
Posted on 11 Dec 2012
Carlton
Posted on 13 Nov 2012
Monique
SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)"
Posted on 21 Apr 2012
Andrew
Posted on 02 Oct 2011
Reader
Posted on 18 Aug 2011
Tony
Posted on 31 Jul 2011
Larry
if victim didnt got hurt that does Not mean that he was not mugged. so these statistics tells how much crime is happening in your country. 1 in every 25 people in US is a criminal.
@John
even if you double the crimes in third world countries it does not even come close to enough to crimes happening in developed countries.
UK: 1 in every 10 persons have committed a crime
USA: 1 in every 25
Saudi Arabia(3rd world country): 1 in every 320 persons!!
this proves a lot of things.
Posted on 13 May 2011
Dan
Are you kidding? Of course crimes without violence are reported in America. You clearly have no knowledge of American law enforcement. In fact, in American law enforcement it is widely discussed that Great Britain has a non-homicide crime problem. Just like America has to realize it has a higher homicide problem, Britain has to accept it has a higher non-homicide crime problem, (and countries like Hungary and those in Scandinavia have to accept they have a higher suicide problem).
If anything the crimes reported in 3rd world countries are most suspect and the least reported.
Posted on 05 Apr 2011
John
Look at #2 on the list: The UK has very strict gun control (possession of a handgun anywhere is a minimum five-year prison sentence), and no death penalty.
And yet, we have five times their population and less than twice their number of crimes. Makes them more than twice as criminal as we are.
Posted on 28 Jan 2011
John
Posted on 21 Dec 2010
Anupam Katkar
The gun lobby is too powerful, and so everyone carries a gun, just as the junk food industry is too strong, and so the country is full of very fat people.
It's a tragedy.
Posted on 15 Dec 2010
Gernot
but the crime per capita is still more accurate though.
Posted on 04 Nov 2010
Kenny harrowland
Posted on 20 Aug 2010
Amy+Becker
Posted on 07 Jun 2010
YallTrippin
Brazil doesnt even make the top 82 countries, having less crimes than countries such as Finland and Denmark, countries globally praised for their safety & well-being?
And even less than Montserrat that has 751 crimes.
As a Brazilian who is honored by our positive aspects but acknowledges our lack of infrastructure and bad use of govt money (as opposed to the countries above mentioned, for instance, I can safely assure one thing: We have more than 751 crimes per city/week...
Posted on 07 Jun 2010
Fernando
Posted on 12 May 2010
Kylie
