APPENDIX
Table 7
International crime trends, 1996
Crimes per 100,000 of the population
Robbery
Theft
and
of
violent
motor
Murder
Rape
theft
vehicles
South Africa
61.0
119.5
281.2
245.0
Argentina
43.5
21.7
32.1
641.0
Australia
3.5
33.9
670.9
Botswana
12.9
68.5
72.9
111.9
Canada
5.1
104.3
596.0
Chile
3.9
10.8
57.1
16.0
Colombia
59.1
3.2
69.5
72.1
France
4.1
12.4
137.0
595.7
Germany
4.3
7.6
82.6
208.9
Israel
2.1
13.0
22.3
682.7
Japan
1.0
1.2
2.0
26.8
United Kingdom
2.6
8.8
142.2
933.2
United States
7.4
36.1
282.4
525.9
SOURCE: International Criminal Police Organization, as cited in South African
Survey, 1999-2000, 54-55. Several of the above numbers are suspect, including,
but not limited to, those for South Africa. In South Africa, for example, thefts of
motor vehicleswere certainly much higher.
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