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Top 10 Countries with High Crime Rates

Friday, April 11, 2014 7:35

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Crime can be defined as the breakage of rules and regulations imposed by the government in the home country. A new report released by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime on Thursday serves as a stark reminder of how drastically murder rates vary from country to country. The Global Study on Homicide 2013 found that nearly half a million people were intentionally murdered in 2012, and killings were largely concentrated in two regions: the Americas and Africa. Here is a list of the top 10 countries with the highest intentional crime rates.

Mix Top Ten

10. Nigeria

Nigeria is ranked on this Top Ten List for a variety of reasons. It is located in Africa and has a vast land of wildlife and fauna. There are many worth seeing places which attract people from all over the world, but during the last decade the country where the eternal land of negligence due to increase in militant activities and civil rebellion war among themselves. Severity in kidnapping and terrorist attacks hold down the country from well flourished. In February 2014, Suspected Islamic militants killed 29 students in a pre-dawn attack on a northeast Nigerian school. They also set ablaze a locked dormitory and shot and slit the throats of those who escaped through windows. The same militants also shot dead at least 39 people in an attack on a village in north-eastern Nigeria less than a week later.

9. India

Coming in at number nine in the list of countries with the highest crime rate is India. The total number of reported crime in India is 1, 64,630. The main cause of this crime in India is its population and bad economy, having a huge number of people and the failure to provide the proper earning resources to them is a default of the government. Besides this, there are huge underworld gangs located in India, which are exploiting its roots and the parties of religious extremism are also creating criminals in the shape of extremist who murder the people from opposite religion or sect.

The most prolific case was on 16 December 2012 in Munirka when a 23-year-old female physiotherapy intern was beaten and gang raped in a private bus in which she was travelling with a male friend. There were six others in the bus, including the driver, all of whom raped the woman and beat her friend. The woman died from her injuries thirteen days later while undergoing emergency treatment in Singapore

8. South Africa

South Africa is at the number eight in our list with the total reported crime of 2,683,849. The country of 53 million people having eleven official languages is also having a huge crime rate in it. This crime rate includes the crimes and criminals from street robbers, thief and gangster to all of the major mafias and smugglers. Besides this there are approximately 500,000 women are being raped every year but these are not the reported rape cases at all.

7. Japan

With the total crime of 2,853,739, the technological leading country Japan is at the number seven in the countries having highest crime rate. It is a fact that Japan has made a lot of achievements in the field of technology and ruling the technological world but besides this is also have a huge crime and criminal network. In this situation the country and its residents have to face a lot of issues and problems, not only the residents but the visitors also have to be careful while moving in the country. There are number of cases reported by the tourists that their luggage has been robbed.

6. Russia

A country with the eight largest economies of the world and which was a super power and still is one of the most powerful and developed countries in the world have a reported crime of 2,952,370. With these figures the Great Russian Federation is at the sixth position in the top ten countries rated with respect to the highest crime. Besides all of the international achievements and technological developments the country is failed to come over with the criminal situation of the country. And with the Ukraine crisis looming, crime in this country will probably increase.