StateMaster - Pennsylvanian Crime statistics

Arson deaths	55.56	[1st of 49]
Capital Punishment > Electrocution	0	[18th of 32]
Capital Punishment > Lethal injection	3	[21st of 32]
Firearms Death Rate per 100,000	9.9	[29th of 51]
Homicide > Victims by Sex > Female	22.1 %	[38th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Weapon > Other Weapons	18.8 %	[38th of 49]
Lynchings > Black	6	[21st of 44]
Lynchings > Total	8	[36th of 44]
Lynchings > White	2	[39th of 44]
Prisoners under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	40,963	[9th of 50]
Property crime total	303,988	[10th of 51]
Robbery	20,974	[6th of 51]
State and Federal prisoners held in local jails	0	[35th of 44]
State and Federal prisoners held in private facilities	366	[23rd of 50]
State Prisoners > Number of deaths	248	[5th of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Homicides	2	[15th of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Suicides	6	[16th of 50]
Terrorism > Victims of 9-11	30	[8th of 40]
Violent crime	54,665	[7th of 51]
Women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	1,827	[14th 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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