[Jerusalem Post ] Abe Selig - The murder rate in Israel is one of the world's lowest and is declining, according to a new study by the University of Haifa. The murder rate per 100,000 residents has remained almost unchanged over the last 28 years and has even gone down over the past few years, concluded Prof. Arye Rattner and Prof. Gideon Fishman of the Center for the Study of Crime, Law and Society. While the incidence of crime has risen, these figures create a false impression without taking into account the dramatic rise in the country's population. The number of murders in Israel per 100,000 people was 2.35 in 1980 and 2.29 in 2006. In 2004, in the U.S. the number of murders per 100,000 was 7.5, and was 18 in Russia.
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