[lit-ideas] Re: Assault Crimes

LH>To Paul Stone:  In one of the articles I posted there was indication that 
the U.S. looks worse in the >murder category because it counts every homicide 
as a murder whereas, apparently, other nations >count them as other things.  

Not quite right.  The UK counts as murder some things you'd count as 
manslaughter.
(That has brought about more than one grave injustice and the system is
going to be changed.)

But here is an older article apparently by a British Doctor deploring the 
situation in Britain. 

Theodore Dalrymple.  You'll have read his piece so will know what violent crime
means in this context; I quote him

TD>Figures recently published by the United Nations show that Britons 
TD>are now several times more likely to be the victim of every kind 
TD>of violent crime, with the admittedly important exception of murder, 
TD>than Americans. No house is safe from theft, no car, no possession 
whatsoever.

(Yes I'd rather live here)
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lawrence Helm 
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  Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 4:04 PM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Assault Crimes


  To Paul Stone:  In one of the articles I posted there was indication that the 
U.S. looks worse in the murder category because it counts every homicide as a 
murder whereas, apparently, other nations count them as other things.   Perhaps 
someone has made the murder statistic into a level playing field, but I haven't 
found that yet.



  But here is an older article apparently by a British Doctor deploring the 
situation in Britain.  Would you really rather live there than in the U.S.?  
Assuming of course this doctor wasn't hallucinating.  
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_25_54/ai_95612956 



  Lawrence

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