Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Monday, September 23, 2013
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Sunday, March 10, 2013
How Facebook could get you arrested
Smart technology and the sort of big data available to social networking sites are helping police target crime before it happens. But is this ethical?
How Facebook could get you arrested | Technology | The Observer
How Facebook could get you arrested | Technology | The Observer
Monday, July 23, 2012
Gun homicides and gun ownership listed by country
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list
The key facts are:
The key facts are:
- The US has the highest gun ownership rate in the world - an average of 88 per 100 people. That puts it first in the world for gun ownership - and even the number two country, Yemen, has significantly fewer - 54.8 per 100 people
- But the US does not have the worst firearm murder rate - that prize belongs to Honduras, El Salvador and Jamaica. In fact, the US is number 28, with a rate of 2.97 per 100,000 people
- Puerto Rico tops the world's table for firearms murders as a percentage of all homicides - 94.8%. It's followed by Sierra Leone in Africa and Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean
- Top 4 gun-owning countries are US, Yemen, Switzerland, Finland (Austria at 14th, Ireland 70th)
- Countries with most firearm homicides per 100,000 are generally Carribean/South American (and poorer).
- US at 28th, then West Bank and Gaza at 29th, but then Liechtenstein at 30th (just ahead of Sierra Leone and the Congo). Possibly could be put down to skewed statistics due to such a small sample size
- Switzlerand (~45th), Italy (~48th), Ireland (~59th), Finland (~61th), Sweden (~62th) and Austria (~68th, with about 15 gun related deaths a year, out of 7 million population)
Monday, July 9, 2012
Longer prison terms really do cut crime, study shows | Law | The Observer
Longer prison terms really do cut crime, study shows | Law | The Observer
Since the impact seemed to be most with repeat offenders however, it does indicate that the longer sentances are simply reducing the number of criminals at large, rather than acting as deterrance or cure. Furthermore it could then just provide a temporary lull due to an extended prison pipeline, and hence not be a long term solution at all. Executions would work even better, but would be no more jusifiable.
Since the impact seemed to be most with repeat offenders however, it does indicate that the longer sentances are simply reducing the number of criminals at large, rather than acting as deterrance or cure. Furthermore it could then just provide a temporary lull due to an extended prison pipeline, and hence not be a long term solution at all. Executions would work even better, but would be no more jusifiable.
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