StateMaster - Californian Crime statistics

Capital Punishment > Electrocution	0	[29th of 32]
Capital Punishment > Lethal injection	8	[15th of 32]
Firearms Death Rate per 100,000	9.8	[30th of 51]
Homicide > Victims by Sex > Female	18.9 %	[44th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Weapon > Other Weapons	16 %	[44th of 49]
Lynchings > Black	2	[28th of 44]
Lynchings > Total	43	[21st of 44]
Lynchings > White	41	[13th of 44]
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	2,485	[1st of 51]
Prisoners under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	166,556	[2nd of 50]
Property crime total	1,156,017	[1st of 51]
Robbery	70,968	[1st of 51]
State and Federal prisoners held in local jails	2,452	[8th of 44]
State and Federal prisoners held in private facilities	2,989	[8th of 50]
State Prisoners > Number of deaths	625	[2nd of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Homicides	21	[1st of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Suicides	52	[1st of 50]
Terrorism > Victims of 9-11	49	[7th of 40]
Violent crime	194,120	[1st of 51]
Women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	11,188	[2nd of 50]

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SOURCES: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005; statehealthfacts.org; Bureau of Justice Statistics ; UMKC School of Law; Bureau of Justice Statistics; Bureau of Justice Statistics; Bureau of Justice Statistics, State Prisoner Suicides and Homicides, 2001.; September 11th, 2001 Victims, website memorial, last update - Sept. 21, 2002.

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