Talk:Violent crime
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[edit] Violent Crime by Country
I added a section about violent crime by country. It draws on one research paper by New Zealand's MoJ. Consequently, it is only one opinion and may be biased. Surprisingly, there does not appear to be much else on the subject that internationally compares violent crime in such detail. UN and other international studies do collect and report crime statistics from many countries, but they do not seem to present comparable statistics or identify the statistical impacts of the differences in the ways the statistics are collected. -- Cameron Dewe 12:18, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Male victims
The sentence
- "With the exception of rape (which accounts for 6% of all violent crimes), males are the primary victims of all forms of violent crime."
is a rather sweeping thing to say. It is also ambiguous. Does it mean that in every category of violent crime, except rape, only males are the victim, or males are predominantly the victim, or males are the first victim, or something else all together? What about male assaults female, for which New Zealand has a specific law, and assaults on children, also infanticide. Domestic violence research suggests females are the victim in that sort of crime, more often than not. Or is it offenders, not victims? New Zealand apprehension statistics suggest that most (i.e. ~80% of) violent offenders are male. Oh, and where does the figure of rape being 6% of all violent crime come from. International research suggests that rape and violent crime are both significantly under reported, consequently any statistics in this area need to be qualified with "reported" or "recorded" not all. How can this be expressed better? -- Cameron Dewe 12:34, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
