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Ratio Of Homicides To Violent Deaths PA WELLINGTON, Oct. 10.. The ratio of homicides to other violent deaths in New Zealand each year is 1 to 70, according to figures placed before the Parliamentary Committee on Capital Punishment today by the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Basing its figures on the years 192644, the league stated that deaths from road accidents averaged 182 annually, suicides 180, and other violent deaths 533. On this basis the ratio of suicides to homicides was 14 to 1, as was the ratio of road accidents to homicides. The homicides averaged 13.5 annually, and over the 19 years the total was 255.
The league’s representatives stated that murders had certainly not increased since the abolition of hanging, but had actually declined. Considerable statistical evidence was submitted to support the statement. One set of figures taken from police reports stated that the average rate of murders reported per million of population from 1923-25 was 7.2, while in the following 13 years the average was 5.16.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27517, 11 October 1950, Page 8
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