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Crime
Statistics
UK Murder Statistics
For some reason the UK
government are not very forthcoming on providing these
statistics, plus we have the battle of recorded crime versus
reported crime and the ambiguity of the British crime Survey.
if you find a reliable source we would love to know.
In 2002, 16,110 people were murdered in
the USA.
In 1999 23,000 were killed in Colombia.
The Crime figure are in line with
financial year, April to end of march each year.
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1960 |
282 |
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1980 |
549 |
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2000 |
792 |
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1961 |
265 |
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1981 |
499 |
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2000/01 |
891 |
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1962 |
299 |
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1982 |
557 |
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2001/02 |
1048 |
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1963 |
307 |
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1983 |
482 |
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2002/03 |
853 |
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1964 |
296 |
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1984 |
537 |
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2003/04 |
868 |
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1965 |
325 |
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1985 |
536 |
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2004/05 |
765 |
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1946 |
347 |
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1966 |
364 |
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1986 |
563 |
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2005/09 |
759 |
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1947 |
371 |
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1967 |
414 |
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1987 |
599 |
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2006/07 |
753 |
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1978 |
341 |
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1968 |
420 |
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1988 |
547 |
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2007/08 |
651 |
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1949 |
298 |
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1969 |
395 |
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1989 |
525 |
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2008/09 |
640 |
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1950 |
346 |
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1970 |
396 |
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1990 |
555 |
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2009/10 |
608 |
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1952 |
328 |
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1971 |
459 |
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1991 |
623 |
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2010/11 |
636 |
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1952 |
400 |
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1972 |
480 |
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1992 |
581 |
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2011/12 |
550 |
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1953 |
327 |
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1973 |
465 |
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1993 |
565 |
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1954 |
311 |
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1974 |
599 |
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1994 |
632 |
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1955 |
279 |
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1975 |
508 |
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1995 |
663 |
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1956 |
315 |
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1976 |
488 |
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1996 |
584 |
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1957 |
321 |
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1977 |
418 |
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1997 |
650 |
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1958 |
261 |
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1978 |
471 |
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1998 |
629 |
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1959 |
266 |
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1979 |
546 |
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1999 |
760 |
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In 1967 the government changed the way crimes were recorded. Some originally recorded as homicide were no longer counted as homicide, these include deaths caused by the IRA, which were moved from murder to acts of terrorism.
for example, and those reclassified as manslaughter.
2010/11 includes
12 victims of Derrick Bird.
2005/06 includes 52 victims of the 7 July London bombings.
2003/04 includes 20 cockle pickers who drowned in Morecambe
Bay.
2002/03 includes 172 victims of Dr Harold Shipman.
2000/01 includes 58 Chinese nationals who suffocated in a
lorry en route into the UK.
(Source. UK home
Office)
As of March 2003 there were 3,500 men
serving a sentence in prison for murder or manslaughter
The prison population of England
& Wales on 7th October 2011 was 87,673.
Prison population of Scotland in
September 2011 was 7,853
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