Sentences with phrase «for homicide rates»

Well how about studies that show that income inequality is a predictor and possibly a determinant for homicide rates in Canada, for starters?

Vancouver was an example where crime has been steadily decreasing after the city hit a decade - long record for homicide rates in 2012.

Thirty years later, Houston reported 572 homicides in a population of 1,630,000 for a homicide rate of 358 per 100,000 population.

Not exact matches

According to a 2005 study of criminal patterns by Statistics Canada, for example, inflation rates influence the levels of financially motivated crimes such as break - ins and car thefts, while increases in unemployment correlate with higher homicide rates.

In Venezuela, for example, the government has not consistently released homicide data (though it did this year), so to find the rate for Caracas, the Council made an estimate based on entries at the Bello Monte morgue — though, as the Council admits, that morgue receives bodies from an area much larger than Caracas itself.

With a rate of fewer than 5 homicides per 100,000 people, Cuba is safer than any other Caribbean destination except for Grenada, according to U.N. statistics from 2011 (the latest available data).

(Its capital city of Caracas recently overtook San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for having the world's highest homicide rate.)

According to an analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality, a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to face a firearm homicide.

«From 2012 to 2014,» the researchers note, «the annual firearm homicide rate for African American children (3.5 per 100000) was nearly twice as high as the rate for American Indian children (2.2 per 100000), 4 times higher than the rate for Hispanic children (0.8 per 100000), and ∼ 10 times higher than the rate for white children and Asian American children (each 0.4 per 100000).»

It gets high scores for its clean air (an indicator in which it tops all metro areas), relatively large proportion of foreign - born residents, and low homicide rate.

Harvey Brenner of Johns Hopkins University has shown that for every 1 per cent increase in sustained unemployment there will be a 6 per cent rise in the national suicide rate, and a 7 per cent increase in homicides among young men between the ages of 15 and 24.

Latin America has the world's highest homicide rates, making violent crime the biggest security concern for many of these countries.

Globally admired for having abolished its army in 1949, and considered one of the safest countries in the region, Costa Rica has hit a record homicide rate of 12,1 per 100.000 inhabitants for 2017.

Its proponents can point to logical, coherent evidence that it would reduce the homicide rate, and it has not been debated by Parliament for over a decade.

The plummeting homicide rate puts the city on pace to record fewer than 300 killings for the year, a level not seen since the end of World War II.

Advocates of gun rights claim non-comparability for other reasons, or argue for comparability in other areas (e.g. compare homicide rate by blunt instrument, which are nearly universally available) for explanatory power.

Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Web - Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting Systems database, the researchers mapped out the relationship between changes in state concealed - carry permitting laws over time and total firearm - related homicide rates between 1991 and 2015.

Dr O'Brien said: «Coming from countries with strong gun control policies, and a 30-fold lower rate of gun - related homicides, we found the arguments for opposing gun control counterintuitive and somewhat illogical.

Sadly, that killing was not all that unusual for the Windy City where the homicide rate in the «hood is higher than that among American soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Dark States saw Louis travel back to the USA (source of so much material for him over the years) and investigate heroin addiction in small - town America, prostitution in Houston, and Milwaukee's high homicide rates.

Learning resources used in the lesson are; homicide data analysis task, graph task, calculating murder rates task, map task, an information sheet used for an analysis task and an extended writing task.

Look at the national rates for dog related homicides.

Although 8th street has long since gentrified, Southeast DC was infamous for having one of the highest homicide rates in the country.

So a 20 percent increase in the rule of law, for example, would increase a nation's GDP by $ 16,644, decrease its homicide rate by two per 100,000 population, decrease child mortality rates by 14.1 per 1,000, and add 5.2 years to average life expectancy.

The homicide rate fell to 1.62 for every 100,000 population, its lowest level since 1966.

What struck me, and not for the first time, was the curious stability in the murder rate: this recent homicide is number 26 in 2012 — which is the same number Toronto had suffered at this time last year.

Between 1997 and 2000, the homicide rate for Indigenous women was nearly seven times higher than the rate for non-Indigenous women.

For example, the clearing of a homicide, robbery or break - in would represent a greater contribution to the overall weighted clearance rate value than the clearing of a minor theft, mischief or disturbing the peace.

Our nation's capital has a higher than average rate for heart disease, cancer, homicide, diabetes, blood poisoning, and hypertension.

The homicide rate for adolescents in the U.S. is the highest of the industrialized nations (roughly 20 times higher), and in many community studies, the rates of adolescent fighting and weapon carrying have increased significantly (Orpinas et al, 1995; Sosin et al., 1995).

Compared with OECD countries, we rated in the top third for the majority of measures, but slipped into the middle third for job security, wealth, employment, educational attainment, homicide rate and substandard dwellings.

While it is a relatively uncommon crime, with 335 recorded homicides of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and 2 019 homicides of non-Indigenous people during the 10 year period from 1999 - 2009, the rate of homicide for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is 8.5 times the rate for non-Indigenous people.

It has the highest per capita homicide rate in the state last year (5 homicides for a population of 9000), drugs and unemployment are rampant, property values are low (great if you are a buyer or renter, bad if you are a seller or landlord).