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To: bentway who wrote (688770)	12/17/2012 1:55:38 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 1573850

Hi bentway; Re: "So, you have no stats." To get the stats you have to read the books. Here's the New York Times on the subject: ''With modern computing we may end up with some very good estimates in the homicide rates in many nations right back to the 17th and 16th centuries,'' said Randall Roth, a historian at Ohio State University who has recalculated murder rates for the 15th and 16th centuries in many countries. ''The data we are getting doesn't line up with most theories of either liberals or conservatives about crime. The theory that crime is determined by deterrence and law enforcement, by income inequality, by a high proportion of young men in a population, by the availability of weapons, by cities, most of those theories end up being wrong.''Historians have offered various explanations for the unexpected fall in the crime rate. Initially some wondered whether the decline in early modern crime might be a result of industrialization and urbanization themselves. But James A. Sharpe, a historian at the University of York in England, said the big statistical dip in violence preceded industrialization and urbanization by more than a century. nytimes.com -- Carl