Homicide data

by Andrew Gelman on January 19, 2013 · 0 comments

in Data,Violence

Jason Kerwin writes:

You mentioned checking out the Wikipedia article on homicide rates in this recent post, which prompted me to finally put up a blog post about trying to track down the source for those rates, nominally the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. I thought you might be interested, as some of it is right up your alley:

It looks like the homicide data attributed to the WHO (which means many of the poorer countries on the list) is questionable.

I don’t know anything about this, but those of you who are interested can follow up if you’d like.

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