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A violent crime or crime of violence is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act is the objective, such as murder, as well as crimes in which violence is the means to an end, such as robbery. Violent crimes include crimes committed with and without weapons. With the exception of rape (which accounts for 6% of all reported violent crimes), males are the primary victims of all forms of violent crime.
Violent Crime by Country
The comparison of violent crime statistics between countries is often problematic due to the way different countries classify crime.Segessenmann, Tanya , Research & Evaluation Unit,Ministry of Justice, Wellington, New Zealand. 11 June 2002 Retrieved 23 June 2007. Valid comparisons require that similar offences between jurisdictions be compared. Often this is not possible because crime statistics aggregate equivalent offences in such different ways that make it difficult or impossible to obtain a valid comparison.
Australia
The Australian Standard Offence Classification (ASOC)Australian Bureau of Statistics . Retrieved 23 June 2007. document published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics does not have a single category for violent crime. Rather, violent crime is classified under a number of different categories that often indicate a range of both violent and non-violent behaviour. The categories include: Segessenmann.
*Homicide and related offences, covering murder (including conspiracies and attempts), manslaughter and driving causing death.
*Acts intended to cause injury, such as Assault, as well as other acts.
*Sexual assault and related offences including non-assaultive sexual offences, such as those against a child.
*Abduction and related offences such as kidnapping, deprivation of liberty or false imprisonment.
*Robbery, extortion and related offences such as blackmail.
Canada
Canada classifies homi read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent+crime
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