Kevin Tarr wrote:

> I found a web site which had an excel file with international crime data:
>
> http://www.aic.gov.au/stats/international/
>
> Hardly a rigorous study: I took the data and did some things with it. I
> divided each incident of crime by the population, averaged each crime
> statistic and 'normalized'* the crime average for each country to the
> average homicide rate. Then I averaged the crimes for each country. I made
> two lists, the first row is without the prison population included as a
> statistic, the second includes it, the third is the rank with the prison
> population.
>
> Call it The Chance That Something Will Happen to You.
>
> New Zealand             10.35%           9.45%          2

Huh? Now that I call surprising. What do they do in New Zealand that they are
number 2 as to the relative amount of people in prison in this list?

Sonja

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