I found a web site which had an excel file with international crime data: http://www.aic.gov.au/stats/international/
Hardly a rigorous study: I took the data and did some things with it. I divided each incident of crime by the population, averaged each crime statistic and 'normalized'* the crime average for each country to the average homicide rate. Then I averaged the crimes for each country. I made two lists, the first row is without the prison population included as a statistic, the second includes it, the third is the rank with the prison population. Call it The Chance That Something Will Happen to You. South Africa 18.33% 17.48% 1 New Zealand 10.35% 9.45% 2 Norway 9.24% 9.24% 4 Australia 9.11% 8.35% 5 England & Wales 8.37% 7.77% 7 Scotland 8.05% 7.467% 8 Luxembourg 7.25% 6.65% 10 Sweden 6.93% 6.23% 12 Russia 6.89% 9.29% 3 Canada 6.87% 6.48% 11 Finland 6.87% 6.87% 9 Northern Ireland 6.70% 6.07% 13 Belgium 6.21% 5.71% 14 U.S.A. 5.61% 8.08% 6 Denmark 5.29% 4.85% 17 Switzerland 4.94% 4.57% 19 Netherlands 4.91% 4.61% 18 France 4.64% 4.42% 20 Estonia 4.59% 5.38% 15 Italy 4.41% 4.22% 21 Spain 4.05% 4.00% 22 Germany 3.93% 3.83% 24 Ireland 3.69% 3.48% 25 37. Japan 1.57% 1.55% 39 Kevin T. No real information was harmed in making this list *I took the average of the crime statistic, divided the homicide average, then multiplied by the specific country's rate for that crime. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
