,and Walker,J.R 1992) What, then, are the rational answers to this series of partly understandable and partly impermissible misconceptions in the Australian society? ... Indeed, trends in Australia from 1965 to 1985 demonstrate an increasing number of homicide cases being reported to the police, but since the figures are rising more slowly than the population, the homicide rate has actually fallen over this period, from nearly six per hundred thousand to less than 4.4. ... In Canada, the homicide rate fell from a peak of 3.09 per 100,000 population in 1975(the year before the aboliti...

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