StateMaster - Tennessean Crime statistics

Arson deaths	3.17	[13th of 49]
Capital Punishment > Electrocution	0	[24th of 32]
Capital Punishment > Lethal injection	1	[31st of 32]
Firearms Death Rate per 100,000	15.4	[11th of 51]
Homicide > Victims by Sex > Female	26.4 %	[21st of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Weapon > Other Weapons	21.9 %	[29th of 49]
Lynchings > Black	204	[8th of 44]
Lynchings > Total	251	[8th of 44]
Lynchings > White	47	[11th of 44]
Prisoners under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	25,884	[17th of 50]
Property crime total	249,297	[13th of 51]
Robbery	11,129	[13th of 51]
State and Federal prisoners held in local jails	6,577	[3rd of 44]
State and Federal prisoners held in private facilities	5,105	[3rd of 50]
State Prisoners > Number of deaths	112	[20th of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Homicides	3	[8th of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Suicides	2	[38th of 50]
Terrorism > Victims of 9-11	1	[28th of 40]
Violent crime	45,907	[8th of 51]
Women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	1,905	[12th 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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