Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Murder City: Cuidad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields. 2011. (book) Nancy Pineda-Madrid. Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juarez. 2011 (book, non-fiction) Sergio González Rodríguez. The Femicide Machine. Semiotext(e) Intervention Series, 2012 (book, nonfiction) Isaac Gomez. The Way She Spoke. 2019 (play) Caridad Svich.
The following 50 cities have the highest homicide rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people. [1] This is based on 2022 data from El Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal (The Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice), an advocacy group from Mexico City.
Mexico has one of the world's highest femicide rates, [1] [2] with as many as 3% of murder victims classified as femicides. In 2021, there were approximately 1,000 femicides, out of 34,000 total murder victims. [3] Ciudad Juárez, in Chihuahua, has one of the highest rates of femicide in the country. As of 2023, Colima State has the highest ...
In 2010, state officials reported a peak of 3,622 homicides in the city. With a rate of 272 murders per 100,000 residents, Ciudad Juarez alone had the highest murder rate in the world, [citation needed] although the rate has steadily decreased since then to reach only 300 murders in 2015. [61]
Ciudad Juarez, a notorious Mexican border town also infested with drug gangs that previously topped most dangerous cities lists, has a murder rate of only 148 per 100,000, according to the Post.
In 2012, Mexico was ranked as the 16th country with the highest rates of femicides. [49] Moreover, between 2011 and 2016, there were an average of 7.6 female homicides per day. [50] In 2016, Mexico had a rate of 4.6 femicides per 100,000 women, and there were a total of 2,746 female deaths with the presumption of them being homicides. [50]
The report says the violent crime rate decreased by 0.5 percent compared with 2018, according to data submitted by 16,554 agencies. The news was lauded by federal officials as progress.
The average homicide rate in the United States was 5.3 murders per 100,000 people in 2016. This rate was as high as 10 per 100,000 in 1980 and 9 per 100,000 in early 90s.