StateMaster - Kentucky Crime statistics

Arson deaths	31	[31st of 49]
Capital Punishment > Electrocution	10	[10th of 32]
Capital Punishment > Lethal injection	27	[27th of 32]
Firearms Death Rate per 100,000	17	[17th of 51]
Homicide > Total number of victims	22	[22nd of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Age > 14-17	28 %	[28th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Age > 25-34	22 %	[22nd of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Age > 50-64	18 %	[18th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Black Male	12 %	[12th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Race > Black	19 %	[19th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Weapon > Other Weapons	14 %	[14th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by White Male	30 %	[30th of 49]
Lynchings > Black	10	[10th of 44]
Lynchings > Total	9	[9th of 44]
Lynchings > White	5	[5th of 44]
Prisoners under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	26	[26th of 50]
State and Federal prisoners held in local jails	5	[5th of 44]
State Prisons > Number of Suicides	43	[43rd of 50]
Terrorism > Victims of 9-11	39	[39th of 40]
Women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	42	[42nd of 50]

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SOURCES: US Fire Administration, 2001; Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005; statehealthfacts.org; Bureau of Justice Statistics ; UMKC School of Law; 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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