Can you name the countries with the most criminal offences? by Mobin

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Most crimes per country Quiz

by Mobin

Created Jun 12, 2012 in Geography
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	deco:	Jun 12th, 2012 at 17:28 GMT		1 point
	not the list of countries i was expecting, i was thinking more Iraq....Afghanistan.....Somalia....North Korea

	Mobin:	Jun 12th, 2012 at 17:38 GMT		1 point
	Crime can range from robbery to kidnapping - it doesn't have to be high scale murder etc. Firstly, the population of Somalia is less than 10 million (around 9 million) whereas the population of japan is like twelve times as Somalia (around 120 million)

	mykl:	Jun 12th, 2012 at 21:52 GMT		2 points
	Perhaps you should mention that less than half of the 197 countries provided statistics! It's also quite interesting that your source says this at the bottom: "Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence"

	carbon_rod:	Jun 12th, 2012 at 23:22 GMT		2 points
	In a country like Somalia, who would you even report a crime to?

	Mobin:	Jun 13th, 2012 at 07:39 GMT		0 points
	Mykl : Well the bottom 197 countries of the world, don't even have a population of over 2 Million.

	mykl:	Jun 13th, 2012 at 10:47 GMT		2 points
	@Mobin: ?? That doesn't make sense. I'm not talking about the quiz, I'm talking about the source. Only 80 countries provided crime statistics (plus Hong Kong and, bizarrely, Montserrat), so this top ten is just a top ten of those 82. Some pretty big countries in terms of population did not provide any statistics: China, Pakistan, Brazil, Indonesia, Egypt, Australia, Nigeria, Iran, Vietnam...doesn't mean they don't have a huge number of crimes.

	Mobin:	Jun 13th, 2012 at 20:33 GMT		1 point
	Simply because those countries may not have disclosed their records.

	mykl:	Jun 14th, 2012 at 22:03 GMT		1 point
	Which is what I said in both of my comments! Because they haven't provided statistics, it makes the top ten a bit meaningless. It's a nice idea for a quiz, but you need a much better source.

	Mobin:	Jun 15th, 2012 at 14:04 GMT		0 points
	Finding an accurate and fair source is an immense task - imagine gathering data from all 196 countries and territories. No source is perfect, each has it's weakness.