StateMaster - South Carolina Crime statistics

Arson deaths	1.71	[20th of 49]
Capital Punishment > Electrocution	6	[6th of 32]
Capital Punishment > Lethal injection	26	[6th of 32]
Firearms Death Rate per 100,000	13.8	[14th of 51]
Homicide > Victims by Sex > Female	26.1 %	[22nd of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Weapon > Other Weapons	21.6 %	[30th of 49]
Lynchings > Black	156	[9th of 44]
Lynchings > Total	160	[10th of 44]
Lynchings > White	4	[37th of 44]
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	359	[20th of 51]
Prisoners under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	23,428	[19th of 50]
Property crime total	183,322	[19th of 51]
Robbery	5,899	[22nd of 51]
State and Federal prisoners held in local jails	429	[19th of 44]
State and Federal prisoners held in private facilities	6	[33rd of 50]
State Prisoners > Number of deaths	116	[18th of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Homicides	3	[10th of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Suicides	2	[37th of 50]
Violent crime	33,078	[13th of 51]
Women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	1,562	[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; Bureau of Justice Statistics, State Prisoner Suicides and Homicides, 2001.

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