StateMaster - South Carolina Crime statistics

Arson deaths	20	[20th of 49]
Capital Punishment > Electrocution	6	[6th of 32]
Capital Punishment > Lethal injection	6	[6th of 32]
Firearms Death Rate per 100,000	14	[14th of 51]
Homicide > Total number of victims	19	[19th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Age > 14-17	33 %	[33rd of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Age > 25-34	15 %	[15th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Age > 50-64	37 %	[37th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Black Male	16 %	[16th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Race > Black	14 %	[14th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Sex > Female	22 %	[22nd of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Weapon > Other Weapons	30 %	[30th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by White Male	27 %	[27th of 49]
Lynchings > Black	9	[9th of 44]
Lynchings > Total	10	[10th of 44]
Lynchings > White	37	[37th of 44]
Prisoners under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	19	[19th of 50]
State and Federal prisoners held in local jails	19	[19th of 44]
State Prisons > Number of Suicides	37	[37th of 50]
Women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	17	[17th 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.

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