MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Latin America has highest rates of intentional homicide, says UNDOC report
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, has released its first “Global Study on Homicide”, which shows that young men, particularly in Central and South America, the Caribbean and Central and Southern Africa, are at greatest risk of falling victim to intentional homicide. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“The Study also establishes a clear link between crime and development: countries with wide income disparities are four times more likely to be afflicted by violent crime than more equitable societies.”
Oct 08th, 2011 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Chile is supposed to have one of the highest disparities (claimed), how come it has the lowest rate of homicide Latin America? Something is not quite right in that assumption...
Statistically, I am 50 times more likely to be murdered here where I live in Salvador, Brasil (where murder rates are going up year-on-year), than where I lived in London (where murder rates are going down, year-on-year).
Oct 08th, 2011 - 02:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps my friend Forgetit is right, and I should return to the UK.
Populist Governments that use the popular vote to stay in power seldome address poverty adequately. Educated people wont vote for them. It is in their interest to keep people poor but to project publicly an immage of fighting for the poor. Build a few houses here and there but never quick enough to erase poverty. Blame guns but not institutional corruption. Portray the poor as victims to be their champions and in order for them to take things into their own hands instead of empowering them through education.
Oct 09th, 2011 - 09:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Not to go on all-fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
Oct 09th, 2011 - 01:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Not to suck up Drink; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
“Not to eat Fish or Flesh; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
“Not to claw the Bark of Trees; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
“Not to chase other Men; that is the Law. Are we not Men?”
De-evolution is no route to Development
“Not to go uneducated into the world.
That is the Law. Are we not men?
Not to condone or contribute to the drug businesses.
That is the Law. Are we not men?
Not to pollute or over-exploit the resources of the land.
That is the Law. Are we not men?
Not to log-out the great rainforests.
That is the Law. Are we not men?
Not to corrupt and not to kill and maim.
That is the Law. Are we not men?”
There's more to the figures than first meets the eye of course, like UK doesn't include attempts, while other nations do, in its intentional homicide figures. As usual, these rating systems are very much biased towards US/UK and their closest western allies of course.
Oct 09th, 2011 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Erm, These are homicide figures...Not attempted homicide figures.
Oct 10th, 2011 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do i need to point out that theres a rather large difference between an attempted homicide and an actual homicide, Master?
UK doesn't count attempts, most other countries do.
Oct 11th, 2011 - 02:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0No. Attemped murders are not counted as murders in any country master.
Oct 11th, 2011 - 06:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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