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Violence: Where and
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homicides rapes each each 100.000 100.000 inhabit inhabit COUNTRY, 1994 Sum Sum ____________________________ __________ __________ COLOMBIA (FARC, coca & carters) 78,59 5,59 KUWAIT 58,02 ,56 JAMAICA 29,77 42,87 (#4) ESTONIA 25,68 198,87 (#1) NICARAGUA 25,63 30,06 BOLIVIA (drug traffic) 23,31 31,24 RUSSIAN FEDERATION (mafias) 23,18 9,43 NORTHERN IRELAND (terrorism) 20,90 12,75 ECUADOR 18,47 8,33 LATVIA 16,17 5,06 ZIMBABWE 15,96 27,72 ZAMBIA 15,83 3,66 KAZAKHSTAN 15,65 10,94 LITHUANIA 15,05 4,43 GEORGIA 14,44 ,90 PANAMA 12,50 11,23 KYRGYZSTAN 12,27 8,70 SWEDEN 11,96 20,64 BULGARIA 11,23 10,70 FINLAND 10,46 7,60 REP OF KOREA 10,15 13,89 BELARUS 9,94 6,49 COSTA RICA 9,70 9,57 UKRAINE 9,65 3,30 REP OF MOLDOVA 9,52 6,14 PHILIPPINES 9,45 3,72 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 8,95 39,22 (#5) AZERBAIJAN 8,93 1,03 CROATIA 8,15 2,09 INDIA 7,90 1,44 ROMANIA 7,62 6,12 ISRAEL 7,23 10,22 JORDAN 5,73 ,69 SLOVENIA 5,72 12,36 ITALY 5,32 1,52 DENMARK 5,05 9,24 AUSTRALIA 4,88 78,23 (#3) HUNGARY 4,65 8,07 CHILE 4,47 6,87 SLOVAKIA 3,83 3,98 REP OF MACEDONIA 3,73 1,77 AUSTRIA 3,52 6,89 SUDAN 3,46 2,11 BELGIUM 3,40 8,92 MALTA 3,02 2,75 TURKEY 2,93 ,82 GREECE 2,86 2,47 QATAR 2,22 2,59 SCOTLAND 2,20 11,09 CANADA 2,04 108,35 (#2) MOROCCO 1,78 3,51 SINGAPORE 1,74 2,76 CYPRUS 1,63 ,95 HONG KONG 1,62 1,65 EGYPT 1,51 ,02 ENGLAND & WALES 1,41 9,85 JAPAN 1,40 1,29 SYRIAN ARAB REP 1,26 ,72 MADAGASCAR ,44 ,35 FRANCE NA 11,30 INDONESIA NA ,87 MALAYSIA NA 4,95 SPAIN NA 3,09 SWITZERLAND NA 3,93Commentary: In some muslim countries, assassination could be underrepresented
dued to the social acceptation of homicides when a woman is killed by her husband
or son if they thought she committed acts against his honor.Burnham, R.W., and Helen Burnham. UNITED NATIONS WORLD SURVEYS ON CRIME TRENDS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS, 1970-1994: RESTRUCTURED FIVE-WAVE DATA [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice [producer], 1997. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter- university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. (ICPSR 2513)
This is not a deep study; these
statistics only have been made to promote studies and to inform individuals
about who is
violent, and what societies/countries
generate more violence. Also, some "tips" have been
included.
NIBRS (National Incident-Based Reporting System, using data from 1991 to 1996): Number of victim to offender relationship (All violent crimes; as assassination, rape, assault... in 1995): 27.068 spouse, common-law spouse
6.058, stepparent or stepchild 2.363. Each group generate a 76.3% (spouses) - 17.1% (common-law spouses) -
6.7% (stepparents, many not married).As there are around the 8% in 1995 of common-law marriages in USA, then violence is at least two times more
frequent in cohabitations than in real marriages.The Centro Municipal de las Mujeres de Puerto de la Cruz [Canary Islands - Spain] have attended this year a total
of 38 cases related to domestic violence. The 47% of these affected women had an age between 31 and 45, and only the 3% had more than 60. A 58% of these women were married, where the 29% were cohabiting. In 1998, in Spain
35 women were killed by their men. El dia digital, 23/11/2000, web www.eldia.esAnd in 1999 were killed 45 women, a year after the cipher was 64... and it continues growing up...
As there are around the 5% in 2000 of common-law marriages in Spain, then violence is at least nine times
more frequent in cohabitations than in real marriages, if this region has the same national average. Nowadays
the realtion between common-law spouses and spouses is almost 1 each 20. [In the extreme case of each 95
spouses are responsibles of 58 cases of violence, and by each 5 common-law sposes produce 29 cases, then
the proportion is one for 9.6]. Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, Barómetro de Diciembre del 2000 (num. 2405).Of all Western New York reports of domestic violence from 1993 to 1997, offenses by husband against wife were
the most frequent, at 57%. Roughly a third of these offenses were in common-law marriages. Offenses by family
members other than spouses, parents, or children comprised 20% of the total. Data from the New York State
Division of Criminal Justice Services (figures prepared for UCR, Uniform Crime Reports). 1999 Performance
Indicators for the Buffalo-Niagara Region (7.4 Domestic Violence).As there are around the 8% in such epoch of common-law marriages in USA, and if this region has a similar
average as the American one, then violence is near seven times more frequent in cohabitations than in real marriages.
If violence is so great, non violent and under reported cases as depression, alcoholism, anxiety, bulimia, stress
and unhappiness would be in equal proportion.An study carried out by the Comunidad de Madrid [Spain], suggest that the 70,61% of the maltreatments occur
in matrimonial unions, where "only" [quotation marks are of mine] the 28,48% are in no matrimonial unions. This
report is based on surveys of 1984-1998 to 667 women received in refugees' houses in the Madrid's Community.As there are around the 5% in 2000 of common-law marriages in Spain, then violence is at least nine times more
frequent in cohabitations than in real marriages, if this region has the same national average.The most common place for domestic violence [in la Rioja community - Spain] is among married or ex-married persons (206 cases - 72%), where in 82 cases, the relation was of common-law spouses (28.6%). A risky factor in
the maltreatments is constituted by alcohol consumption, and in less degree, drugs, according to the Fiscally.
Diario de la Rioja, 27/03/2000.As there are around the 5% in 2000 of common-law marriages in Spain, then violence is at least nine times more
frequent in cohabitations than in real marriages, if this region has the same national average.Do have the same proportion of homicides and domestic violence the matrimonies wedded in the religious form
than those married only in the civil form ?According to the F.B.I.: A woman is beaten every 12 seconds in the United States. Over 4,000 women are killed
each year at the hands of their batterers. Battering is the most under-reported crime in the country. One out of every two American women will be beaten at least once in the course of an intimate relationship. 75% of women who are battered are divorced or separated from their abusers at the time of the incident. U.S. Department of Justice,
"Report to the Nation on Crime and Justice: the Data," Washington, D.C. October (1983).In almost three-fourths of spouse-on-spouse assaults, the perpetrator and survivor were separated or divorced at
the time of the incident. 75.9%, 25 times higher for separated vs. married women. U.S. Department of Justice,
Bureau of Justice Statistics, Reports to the Nation on Crime and Justice, October 1983.12,000 suicides in France in 1997, and 165,000 attempted suicides each year. In one case in two alcoholism is accompanied by violence. There are 250 crimes of passion per year in France and 4 million women assaulted by
their partner. Universal, and universally under-estimated, for lack of reliable statistics, conjugal violence in France
is said to affect all social classes, all nationalities, all ages and all cultures. Anne Rapin, journalist.Within the last year, 7% of women (3.9 million) who are married or are living with someone as a couple were physically abused, and 37% (20.7 million) were verbally or emotionally abused by their spouse or partner."
Louis Harris and Associates, The Commonwealth Fund Survey of Women?s Health (The Commonwealth Fund,
New York, 1993).In the United Kingdom, around 3 million people cohabits in common-law unions; reaching the 79% of men and
71% of women with less of age 35; the cohabitation is their ideal way to live together. Less than a 4% of the
common-law unions survives 10 years or more. The 20% are separated before three years, where the married ones
are a 3%. As result, the common-law unions that don't end in matrimony, broke up in a proportion four times more
than the married couples. Also, women have more risk to suffer violence than those married. The health commonly
is poor, because the common-law spouses allow and tolerate more the alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse. The
couples in cohabitation are more prone to have other lovers than those married. Otherwise, cohabitation seems as
a door to enter in a solitary maternity, specially in women with little economical resources. The consequences are
specially grave for the kids: worse scholar results, more psychological problems and a significative increase about
the risk to be object of child abuse.
The cohabitation seems for many men the perfect way to continue as an bachelor (really they are bachelors),
about their job, social life and responsibilities with the house and children. In the other hand, married men usually
work more hard, and decrease their social life to increase the familiar and laboral aspects.
The "politically correct" belief, very expanded today, is that many of the common-law unions are as respectable
as are matrimonies, asserting that the importance is the quality of the relation, not the matrimonial institution.
According to Morgan, "the attack against the family has been the most evident, triumphant and most hard
of the counterculture's revolution". In the better cases, "the matrimony has been treated as a joke in the
departments of Sociology and usually has been considered as problematic: commonly it is viewed as a
repressive instrument to slavize the women and cut the freedom".
The common-law unions are formed quickly, much more than matrimonies; allowing more easily to violent and/or
alcoholic persons occult their real face. Jim Gilchrist in the newspaper The Scotsman (Edimburg, 15/08/2000 - The
Rise of Cohabitation and its Consequences, edited by the Institute for the Study of Civil Society). Author,
sociologist Patricia Morgan, cited by Aurora Pimentel.Child abuse statistics show that abuse is vastly over-represented in blended families and single parent families. Cohabiting couples are more likely to split up than married couples, thus creating a greater risk for any children involved. Bettina Arndt reported last year that Australian Institute of Family Studies research shows "de facto relationships are ten times more likely to break up than marriages." Government measures to help children should therefore specifically aim at strengthening marriages and discouraging unmarried cohabitation, divorce or single parenting.
Now, we can see how many common-law husbands really are taking advantage of the benefits of female companionship without the obligations and responsibilities of marriage. Then, with a father or step-father possibly aggressive and alcoholic, with the almost sure possibility that he will abandon/desert his "family" before 10 years,
with the emotional storm of a separation, with an hysterical mother that almost alone must carry children, job and house... What is the future for their children ? What if a deep economical crisis or war happen ? They would be the most weak and logically the first losers. Also, evidences show that one-parent children tend to be more impulsive,
irritable, and to be lonely, unhappy, anxious, and insecure. Strong families with the traditional links ( Grand Mother,
the uncle, the father, etc. ) bring more emotional stability than those monoparental or divided, and more chances to
give to their children a future.In the most extensive study to date, of 1000 battered women, Bowker and coworkers found that 70% of the children were also abused. Lee H. Bowker, Michelle Arbitell, and J. Richard McFerron, On the Relationship Between Wife Beating and Child Abuse, in Feminist Perspectives on Wife Abuse , Kersti Yllö and Michele Bograd, eds. (1988).
Among other factors on child sexual abuse and physical violence, Fergusson and Lynskey (1997) in the Christchuch Health and Development Study, have found more incidences in single-parent families, if the children experience more
than two changes of parents or parent figures up to age 15, or if the kid experiences high levels of parental conflict.
The Christchurch study found similar factors underlying the risk of sexual abuse. Compared to young women who
reported no childhood sexual abuse, young women who reported childhood sexual abuse were more likely to: be
raised by a young mother, experience at least one change of parent or parent figure before age 15, be raised with
a step-parent, be exposed to high levels of parental conflict, report poor parental attachment, have parents who used
illicit drugs and have parents who reported alcohol problems or alcoholism; among other factors.
Also, physically abused or maltreated children are up to three times more likely than non-abused children to
engage in violent behaviour and criminal offending, attempt suicide and experience anxiety disorders when they are
teenagers. They are also more likely to be victims of violent assault.
Otherwise, compared to their non-abused counterparts, teenage girls in the Christchurch study who reported
childhood sexual abuse involving attempted or completed intercourse had higher rates of teenage pregnancy, early
sexual activity, unprotected intercourse, and STD. They also experienced higher rates of sexual victimization
(sexual assault and reports of rape or attempted rape) after age 16. These risks remained even after adjusting for
the possible influences of other childhood and family factors, such as socioeconomic disadvantage and childhood
adversity.Stepparents are 100 times more likely to kill their preschool children than are natural parents. Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, "Evolutionary Social Psychology and Family Homicide," Science 242, 519-524 (1988).
Preschoolers living with one natural and one stepparent were 40 times more likely to become child abuse cases than were like-aged children living with two natural parents. Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, "Child Abuse and Other Risks of Not Living with Both Parents," Ethology and Sociobiology 6, 197-210 (1985).
"Even after controlling for income, children of unwed mothers are two and a half times more likely to develop
conduct disorders than other children." The Abolition of Marriage, by Maggie Gallagher p. 95, citing Carmen N.
Velez, Jim Johnson, and Patricia Cohen, "A Longitudinal Analysis of Selected Risk Factors for Childhood Psychopathology," Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 28 (1989): 861-864.According to Irma Moilanen and Paula Rantakallio, fatherless children are much more likely to develop psychiatric problems - boys three times as likely, girls four times. "The Single Parent Family and the Child's Mental Health," Social Science Medicine 27 (1988), 181-6; cited in the Family in America: New Research, October, 1988. Cited in Amneus, The Garbage Generation.
Both teens in single-parent families and teens in stepfamilies are 3 times more likely to have needed psychological help within the past year. Peter Hill, "Recent Advances in Selected Aspects of Adolescent Development," Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 34, no. 1 (1993): 69-99. Cited on page 72 of The Abolition of Marriage, by Maggie Gallagher
Upon surveying 752 families at random, the researchers divided the children into those who had never attempted suicide and those who had done so at least once. The two groups, the found, differed little in age, family income,
race, and religion. But those who attempted suicide were more likely to live in non-intact family settings than were the nonattempters. More than half of the attempters lived in households with no more than one biological parent, whereas only about a third of the nonattempters lived in such a setting." Carmen Noevi Velez and Patricia Cohen, "Suicidal Behavior and Ideation in a Community Sample of Children: Maternal and Youth Reports," Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 273 [1988]: 349-356. Cited in Amneus, The Garbage Generation.A survey of 108 rapists undertaken by Raymond A. Knight and Robert A. Prentky revealed the 60 percent came
from female-headed homes,. 70 percent of those describable as 'violent' came from female-headed homes. 80 percent of those motivated by 'displaced anger' came from female-headed (single-parent) homes. "No-Fault Divorce: Proposed Solutions to a National Tragedy," 1993 Journal of Legal Studies 2, 19, citing R. Knight and R. Prentky, The Developmental Antecedents and Adult Adaptations of Rapist Subtypes, 14 CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR 403-426 (1987).Surveying the juvenile criminals who are a threat to the public, three-fourths came from broken homes.
Ramsey Clark, Crime in America: Observations on Its Nature, Causes, Prevention and Control (New York: Pocket Books, 1970), p.39. Cited in Amneus, The Garbage GenerationYoung men who grow up in homes without fathers are twice as likely to end up in jail as those who come from traditional two-parent families, according to a new study released Thursday. Cynthia Harper of the University of Pennsylvania and Sara S. McLanahan of Princeton University tracked a sample of 6,000 males aged 14-22 from 1979-93. They found that those boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated - even when other factors such as race, income, parent education and urban residence were held constant.
Study showed that over half (53 percent) of the inmates of state correctional facilities had grown up without the benefits of a two parent household. "No-Fault Divorce: Proposed Solutions to a National Tragedy," 1993 Journal of Legal Studies 2, 19, citing B. Chapman, Fairness For Families: An Organing Theme for the Administration's Social Policies, 2 The Journal of Family and Culture 23 (1986).
A study conducted by two sociologists, Robert J. Sampson and W. Byron Groves, who analyzed data from hundreds of British communities found that in neighborhoods with a high percentage of single-parent homes the amount of crime was significantly higher. ... In a study by "So powerful was the connection between disrupted families and crime that, once family status was controlled for, neither race nor income had any effect on the crime rate." Nor did dropout rates in a Latino neighborhood studied by Josefina Figueroa-McDonough, "Residence, Dropping Out, and Delinquency Rates, Deviant Behavior 14, (1993).
A recent study of 25,000 incarcerated juveniles made by the Bureau of Justice Statistics indicates that 72 percent
of them came from broken homes. Seventy-four percent of the nation's children live with two parents, 26 percent with one parent. A child growing up in a single-parent home (usually female-headed) is seven times as likely to be a delinquent. Statistics from the Los Angeles Times, 19 September, 1988. Cited in Amneus, The Garbage Generation."In a new study of 72 adolescent murders and 35 adolescent thieves, researches for Michigan State University demonstrated that the overwhelming majority of t teenage criminals live with only one parent. Fully 75 percent of those charged with homicide had parents who were either divorced or had never been married at all; that number rises to 82 percent of those charged with nonviolent larceny offenses. Dewey G. Cornell, et al., "Characteristics of Adolescents Charged With Homicide: Review of 72 Cases," Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 5, No. 1 [1987]; epitomized inThe Family in America: New Research, March, 1988. Cited in Amneus, The Garbage Generation.
Who are the women in prison?......More than half are single mothers living on welfare." Phyllis Chesler, Mother
on Trial: Battle for Children and Custody (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986), p. 291. Cited in Amneus, The Garbage Generation.Among those at increased risk for disordered eating were respondents who had experienced sexual or physical abuse and those who gave low ratings to family communication, parental caring and parental expectations. In light
of these findings, the researchers conclude that "strong familial relationships may decrease the risk for disordered eating among youth reporting abuse experiences. Source: Dr. Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, et al, University of
Minneapolis, International Journal of Eating Disorders 2000;28:249-258.A 64% of hospitalized female psychiatric patients have a history of being physically abused as an adult,
44% and as a child. 38% were sexually abused as adults and 22% as children. A Jacobsen and B. Richardson,
"Assault experiences of 100 psychiatric Inpatients: Evidence of the Need For Routine Inquiry,in " American
Journal of Psychiatry 144, 908-913 (1987).A recent survey of female psychiatric inpatients in the American Journal of Psychiatry revealed that 72% reported
a history of physical or sexual abuse; 54% were sexually abused, of these, almost half (44%) reported sexual
abuse before the age of 16. Most of this childhood sexual abuse was perpetrated by fathers and brothers. Bryer,
Nelson, Miller and Krol, "Childhood Sexual and Physical Abuse as Factors in Adult Psychiatric Illness," 144
American Journal of Psychiatry 1426 (1987).According to Evelina Giobbe, when WHISPER conducted interviews for its Oral History Project, 90 per cent of
the women who participated had been subjected to physical and sexual abuse during childhood (approximately
90 percent had been battered in their families; 74 percent had been sexually abused between the ages of 3 and 14,
93 percent by a family member). Mimi H. Silbert and Ayala M. Pines, Pornography and Sexual Abuse of Women,
10 Sex Roles 857 (1984) (study of prostitutes documenting "stunning amounts" of sexual abuse in their childhood).
Do these findings suggest any conclusions about how "voluntary" prostitution work is?The results of one study show that 45% of all female alcoholics have a history of being battered that preceded
their addiction. E. Stark and A. Flitcraft, "Violence Among Intimates: An Epidemiological Review," in V. B. Van
Hasselt, et al. eds., Handbook of Family Violence (Plenum Press, New York, 1988).Tribal societies: Antropologists investigating primitive and uninfluenced tribes have found that the homicide
rate among males is 33%, including intertribal conflicts. If we do mathematics it would represent some 1.600
homicides each 100.000 men at year. Also, the paleolithic-stage tribes have a birth rate of 4 a woman: among the
pygmies, in the case that a couple have a babe and in the next three years another yet... the second one must be "eliminated", and abortion techniques are not well known. Things to learn: one, that many "positive prejudices" for
the tribal societies are not true, but distorted by the most deformative mirror in world: the television. Second, that
the same intelligence that lets us commit abortion and/or infanticide have given us the power to be six bilion today.
Based on data by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza in their "The Great Human Diasporas,
The History of Diversity and Evolution" (Perseus Books, 1995); and by anthropologist Rafael Garcia.
Family situations (EUROSTAT 1994-97):
Today around 11% of us live alone compared with 8% in 1981. Swedes do so most (24%), the Spanish and Portuguese least (4%). EU-wide, the figure is forecast to rise?????
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When it comes to living together unmarried, there’s a big generation gap – only 7% of all people living in couples are not married, but 28% of the under-30s. In Denmark, 72% of the under-30s in couples are unmarried – but on the Mediterranean only 6-8%.
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In Switzerland, women living with their sexual partner are a 63% among those between 20 and 24; in New Zealand
this cipher is similar: 67%. In Spain represents the 22%, but it reaches the 8% of those women with an age of 25 to
29, and a 5% if 30 - 34. according the UN and Eurostat.According to the Population Trends Winter 1999, by the Office for National Statistics (UK), as far as the 70% of
the married couples in 1997 were living previously as a common-law marriages; this percentage rises a 83% if the
couple was married only in the civil way, and a 82% if one or both mates were once divorced or separated. But
contrarily, the percentage falls a 61% if the married couple was formed by former bachelor-spinster, and 48% if the
couple was married with a religious act. More British statistics: the relation between civil and religious marriages
was 55% and 45% (1997); and an scandalous 89% of the births by mothers under 25 were out of matrimony.United States data: In 1970 only there were one common-law spouses per each 100 matrimonies; 30 years after,
the proportion is almost 1:10. And more data: in 1980 one in five children were born by an unmarried woman or by a concubine. Nowadays, the actual cipher is one in two. According to the last census, there are 5.6 millions of couples living together not married, 70% heterosexual and 30% homosexual. Only one in three of the heterosexual couples have children. Newspaper El Pais.Cuba has 75% Divorce Rate, rampant cohabitation "Cuba is suffering from an acute economic crisis. But many Cubans say there's a second one, the death of the idea of family. ...Over the years, Cuban socialism has taken a
toll on the traditional family. Husbands and wives sometimes have to live apart for months because of work
assignments in different parts of the country. Three of every four marriages end in divorce. Common-law
arrangements are more the norm than formal marriage, government statistics show."Nearly one-half of substantiated cases of child neglect and abuse are associated with parental alcohol or drug abuse. Child Welfare League of America: Alcohol and Other Drug Survey of State Child Welfare Agencies. Washington, D.C.: Child Welfare League of America, 1998.
In Catalonia, there are 800 mortal victims and 23.000 wounded people each year by car accidents. 2/3 of these are
related to drunk drivers; this is near to the European average. Telenotícies, by the Catalan TV3, 29/03/2001.One study of 428 adults-only paperbacks found that almost one-third of the sex episodes contained the use of force; this study concludes that in fact, these paperbacks are promoting the fantasy that women want to be abused, increasing tolerance on rapes. Don D. Smith, "The Social Content of Pornography," Journal of Communication 26,
16-24 (1976).In a study of 515 college men, Boeringer found that a higher exposure to pornography depicting violent and rape behavior was significantly related to actually engaging in sexual aggression. "For example the group reporting higher exposure to violent pornography was almost six times more likely to report rape behavior than the low exposure group (13.8% vs. 2.4%)." Scot B. Boeringer, "Pornography and Sexual Aggression: Associations of Violent and Nonviolent Depictions with Rape and Rape Proclivity," Deviant Behavior 15, 289-304 (1994). Boeringer, Scot B.
For example, William Marshall found that ten of 18 Canadian incarcerated rapists that he interviewed confessed
that pornography influenced them to force females to have sex. Gow, above note 52. Because of concerns that incarcerated offenders may be currying favor, a group of behavioral scientists evaluated the use of pornography by
256 non-incarcerated perpetrators of sexual offenses and discovered that 56% of the rapists and 42% of the child molesters "implicated pornography in the commission of their offenses." Diana E.H. Russell, Pornography and
Rape: A Causal Model, 9 Pol.Psych. 41, 68 (1988).Facts: Suicide's level per country (graphic) - Criminality's level per country (graphic provided). Data provided by
the Observatorio de la Seguridad Pública, of the Instituto de Estudios de la Seguridad y Policía, link HERE.:
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Measuring the proportion of suicides in each region can provide us, in some sense, the real volume of unhappiness.Child assassinations and suicides have risen from 31 and 15 in 1980-84 to 49 and 21 in 1990-94. Ministry of Health 1997, New Zealand.
Reported cases of child sexual abuse reached epidemic proportions, with a reported 322 percent increase from
1980 to 1990. Source: Sorensen & Snow, 1991.More data in graphics by the Observatorio de la Seguridad Pública:
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According to criminologist Elliot Currie, for most of the period after World War II, the female incarceration rate
hovered at around 8 per 100,000; it did not reach double digits until 1977. Today it is 51 per 100,000.... At current
rates of increase, there will be more women in American Prisons in the year 2010 than there were inmates of both sexes in 1970. When we combine the effects of race and gender, the nature of these shifts in the prison population
is even clearer. The prison incarceration rate for black women today exceeds that for white men as recently as
1980. Elliot Currie, Crime and Punishment in America 14 (1998).The perception that criminals are getting younger is backed up by statistics. In 1982, 390 teens ages 13-15 were
arrested for murder. A decade later, this total jumped to 740. [...] The violent-crime rate seems to rise and fall in
tandem with the number of teens in the population. But recently, teen violence has exploded (murder arrests of
teens jumped 92 percent since 1985) during a period in which the teen population remained steady or declined.
In leaderu.com ( see the link ).Average: The 80% of the psychopath assassins "repeat" after 6 year to be released. Telediario, by the Spanish
TV1, 29/03/2001.Again, another 80% of the rapists "repeat" [evidently after the release]. Magazine Espejo Público, by the Spanish
channel Antena3, 22/4/2001Most citizens are shocked to find out that violent criminals serve only 5.5 years for murder or 3 years for rape.
But those are the sobering statistics wrought from lenient early-release practices. [...] Criminologist Marvin
Wolfgang compiled arrest records for males born and raised in Philadelphia (in 1945 and in 1958). He found that
just 7 percent in each age group committed two-thirds of all violent crime. This included three-fourths of the rapes
and robberies, and nearly all of the murders. They also found that this 7 percent had five or more arrests before the
age of 18. In leaderu.com ( see links ).A less reliable statistic for Spain, is around eight years for murderers, six months for rapists. According to my
memory and a rough calculus...In 1998, 53.847 spanish women aborted, the 97.3% alleging perjury for their health (physical or mental).
Incredible ! So much women can loose its psychological equilibrium having a babe ?... And nobody alleges abortion because doesn't remember who was the father after a night under the alcohol effects ? Or because she can't effort the shame to be a 15 years old mother ? Or because a babe would disturb her in her universitary education ? Or because her lover has said "that is not my problem, baby" ? Many abortions come by wrong acts, and this wicked people doesn't want worries, they only want easy things, without responsibilities: it is how our mass media teach us.
Liberal and "progressist" customs really started in the Western societies some forty years ago, now we are
receiving some of its consequences (children without any discipline and/or unattended, increasing violence, sexual
predators and "new" vices). Knowing these facts, knowing that all the consequences of the libertine system haven't
ended, and knowing that children from violent houses have a great possibility to become aggressive, perhaps after
few generations these vicious circle would lead us towards the demographic depopulation and the social
disintegration and putrefaction, and that could be so great that only could happen a social counter-revolution, or a
Mad Max-type society. Because of this, I believe that these new familiar structures and the 99% allowed system
can't survive more than three generations: never human society has had this system.The mass media and the "social leaders", joint the first taboo written in history about what is "politically correct"
have brain washed many people that adultery is because the poor wives have not marital attentions; that
homosexuality is another option and isn't a vice (also paedophilia is another normal option ?); that no married
couples are equal than those married, being more liberal, nice and progressist; that abortions come by poor women
without resources; that matrimonies are repressive; that assassins are poor men with some psychological and
temporal obfuscation... There isn't evilness. Also, in my mind I have these images ! Who has the right to enter so
deeply in my subconscious ??!At least, statistics can't deceive.
LINKS TO VISIT
http://www.jimhopper.com/abstats/
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/label_france/ENGLISH/SOCIETE/violence2/violence.html
http://www.samhsa.gov/statistics/statistics.html
West Group: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (Copyright © 1999)
http://www.law.depaul.edu/syllabi/torrey/Materials/CHAPTER5.pdf
http://europa.eu.int/eurostat.htm
Population Trends Winter 1999 at
www.ons.gov.uk/
Ending Men's Violence (CITEBASE tm),
Copyright ©1994-1999 Jack C. Straton at
www.europrofem.org/02.info/22contri/2.04.en/4en.viol/31en_vio.htm
NIBRS by the Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/nibrs/famvio21.pdf or in
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/crime/html.htm
www.divorcereform.org/mel/adomesticviolence.htm
Homepage: Real International Statistics on Religion, where you can see what the people believe in: as per example atheism,
number of agnostics, reincarnation believers in Australia, New Age in Sweden, Catholic practicings in Italy, opinion
about abortion, religious people in USA, etc.If you have comments or further information, please, send me that here: