StateMaster - Virginian Crime statistics

Arson deaths	1.05	[27th of 49]
Capital Punishment > Electrocution	27	[2nd of 32]
Capital Punishment > Lethal injection	67	[3rd of 32]
Firearms Death Rate per 100,000	11.1	[25th of 51]
Homicide > Victims by Sex > Female	27.9 %	[18th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Weapon > Other Weapons	23.4 %	[24th of 49]
Lynchings > Black	83	[12th of 44]
Lynchings > Total	100	[14th of 44]
Lynchings > White	17	[27th of 44]
Prisoners under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	35,564	[11th of 50]
Property crime total	189,406	[18th of 51]
Robbery	7,749	[16th of 51]
State and Federal prisoners held in local jails	4,502	[7th of 44]
State and Federal prisoners held in private facilities	1,568	[15th of 50]
State Prisoners > Number of deaths	140	[13th of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Homicides	1	[25th of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Suicides	4	[21st of 50]
Terrorism > Victims of 9-11	81	[4th of 40]
Violent crime	21,568	[20th of 51]
Women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	2,706	[7th 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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