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Using Newly available Homicide Data to Debunk Two Myths about Violence in an International Context

A Research Note

University of Oklahoma

This article employs newly available crime and vital statistics data from Russia to debunk two myths about violence in an international context. The first myth is that the United States is the most violent industrialized nation in the world. The second myth is that in spite of other problems associated with Soviet society, at least the totalitarian regime was able to maintain low rates of crime and violence. The newly available data reveal the inaccuracies in each of these statements. Not only is the current Russian homicide victimization rate more than 3 times higher than in the United States, but it has been comparable to or higher than the U.S. rate for at least the past 35 years. Furthermore, preliminary analyses of these data also question the generalizability of other commonly held notions about the production of high rates of violence in the United States.

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