"Joseph E. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "We" would expect to find small children listed but only if the Japanese > treat these as we would, that is, as "suicides."
This is confused. The Japanese treat them as we do, that is, as HOMICIDES. > I'm not sure they do. > I'll look in Dave Kopel's book the next time I'm in the office. My > original point was that they aren't considered to be murders. That > still stands. Here are Kopel's exact words: "One reason that the official Japanese homicide rate is so low is that if a Japanese woman slits her children's throats and then kills herself, police statistics sometimes record it as a family suicide, rather than a sensational murder." Not only is Kopel's claim false, as I have demonstrated, you aren't even reporting it accurately. > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/31/03 10:37AM >>> > The point is, if murder-suicides are listed as suicides, then we'd > expect to see some > 'suicides' of small children in the statistics. > -- Tim
