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Iceland's homicide rate is one of the world's lowest, and it has lower homicide rate than India by 35 times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_

• anuraj 13y ago
  I told you about the Homicide rate of Kerala, an Indian state which has 100x population of Iceland. 365 (470 including culpable homicides not amounting to murder) homicides in 2011 with 33.4 million population.So Iceland is nothing exceptional here. http://www.keralapolice.org/newsite/crimein_kerala.html http://www.keralapolice.org/newsite/crimein_kerala.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala
  • mercurial 13y ago
    You seem to be claiming Kerala as the norm rather than an outlier. You're certainly welcome to compare crime rates between the two and/or suggest explanations/compare living conditions, but saying that very low crime rate is the norm is simply false [1] 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_rate
    • anuraj 13y ago
      No - I said Kerala has a high crime rate - but a relatively low homicide rate. Kerala is definitely an outlier in many respects in India. What I am trying to hint is it is not exceptional to have low homicide rates - there are several parts of the world where it is the norm. It may be better to consider high homicide rates in some developed, high HDI regions as an anomaly and analyze the reasons.