epidemiology
Violence, trauma, crime and homicide data is produced regularly by governments, global political organisations, health-care providers, police forces, and pressure groups - to name but a few - and it can be a challenge to locate the most up-to-date statistics.
For example, the United Nations has produced a comprehensive Global study on homicide whilst in England and Wales the Office of National Statistics releases annual crime and violence statistics.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides fatal injury data, and accidental injury data.
Child injury and homicide data for England & Wales has been produced by specialist interest groups such as the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC - child homicide data) and the Trauma Audit & Research Network (TARN - severe injury in children review 2012).
homicide data visualisation
Homicide monitor (https://homicide.igarape.org.br/) provides an excellent data-visualisation tool, mapping homicide data on to an interactive globe.
The screenshot below shows the homicide data for the UK; explore the globe to find those countries with the highest homicide rates.
homicide mapping & statistics online
- New York City - homicides 2003-2009 (New York Times)
- International (via wikipedia)
- International (via Nationmaster.com up to 2006)
online resources
- Office for National Statistics (www.ons.gov.uk/)
- US National Centre for Health Statistics - Injury data
- US National Safety Council - injury and death statistics
- US CDC - Injury mortality reports 1999-2007
- Crime survey for England & Wales (Wikipedia)
- Causes of death by rate (Wikipedia)
- Violence (Wikipedia)
- Injury (Wikipedia)
- Suicide (Wikipedia)
- Homicide (Wikipedia)
The decline in violence and homicide - TED talk given by Stephen Pinker
Learn more about his book here.