StateMaster - Mississippi Crime statistics

Arson deaths	0	[45th of 49]
Capital Punishment > Electrocution	0	[28th of 32]
Capital Punishment > Lethal injection	2	[23rd of 32]
Firearms Death Rate per 100,000	17.3	[6th of 51]
Homicide > Victims by Sex > Female	23.9 %	[33rd of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Weapon > Other Weapons	21.2 %	[32nd of 49]
Lynchings > Black	539	[1st of 44]
Lynchings > Total	581	[1st of 44]
Lynchings > White	42	[12th of 44]
Prisoners under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	20,983	[23rd of 50]
Property crime total	93,393	[32nd of 51]
Robbery	3,118	[31st of 51]
State and Federal prisoners held in local jails	4,624	[6th of 44]
State and Federal prisoners held in private facilities	4,744	[4th of 50]
State Prisoners > Number of deaths	69	[26th of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Homicides	0	[33rd of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Suicides	2	[35th of 50]
Terrorism > Victims of 9-11	1	[31st of 40]
Violent crime	8,691	[35th of 51]
Women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	1,796	[15th 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; 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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