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 == The Frequency of Homicide ==
-'''1. Homicide is one of the less common causes of death'''
+. '''The homicide problem is qualitative, not so much quantitative.'''
-*World Population: from 370 million in 1350 to 7.6 billion in 2018.
-'''*Yearly Deaths: a total of 55 million'''
-'''*Yearly Deaths by homicide: less than 500 000.'''
-*Yearly Deaths of conflict and terrorism: 150 000 (in 2006 it was less than half of that).
-Comparisons:
+Homicide is one of the less common causes of death. There are 7.6 billion human beings on earth worldwide (2018). Every year, 130 million babies are born, and 55 million people die. That is 15 000 births and 6 300 deaths each hour, or an annual rate of 1900 births and 800 deaths per 100 000 population. Of these 800 deaths per 100 000 population, only 6 or 7 are due to homicide, adding up to an absolute number of around half a million homicide victims per year worldwide. That is more than deaths of cancer of the pancreas (330 000), and even much more than deaths due to war and terrorism (even though that number went up by 140 per cent from 2006 to now 150 000) - but it is less than deaths due to breast cancer (571 000) or lung cancer (1.7 million). Compared with the total number of deaths due to non-communicable diseases (36 million) or even with suicide (800 000), homicide is (much) less frequent. Death by war, terrorism, and homicide are comparatively seldom. They seem to be a qualitative problem more than a quantitative one.
-*> 36 million thereof from noncommunicable diseases: heart attack, stroke, cancer, diabetes ...
-:*Cancer: 8.8 million. Lung (1.69 million deaths), Liver (788 000), Colorectal (774 000), Stomach (754 000), Breast (571 000), Bones (470 000?), Pancreas (330 000)
-'''Death by war, terrorism, and homicide is comparatively seldom. It is a qualitative problem more than a quantitative one.'''
+With a worldwide average homicide rate of around 6 per 100,000 inhabitants, homicide is one of the less frequent causes of death in the real world. Death comes to most of us in different forms. [https://www.unodc.org/gsh/  see: Global Study on Homicide]. In that sense, we can say that we are safe.
-With a worldwide average homicide rate of around 6 per 100,000 inhabitants, homicide is one of the less frequent causes of death in the real world. In other words: Normally, death comes to us as not by way of homicidal action by other humans. [https://www.unodc.org/gsh/  see: Global Study on Homicide].
+But when a homicide happens, it has a number of negative effects:
-In that sense, we can say that we are safe. Homicide is relevant because of its quality, not because of its quantity. Because, when it happens, it has a ripple effect. "The study of intentional homicide is relevant not only because it is the study of the ultimate crime, whose ripple effect goes far beyond the initial loss of human life, but because lethal violence can create a climate of fear and uncertainty. Intentional homicide also victimizes the family and community of the victim, who can be considered secondary victims, and when justice is not served, impunity can lead to further victimization in the form of the denial of the basic human right to justice." (UNODC)
+:"The study of intentional homicide is relevant not only because it is the study of the ultimate crime, whose ripple effect goes far beyond the initial loss of human life, but because lethal violence can create a climate of fear and uncertainty. Intentional homicide also victimizes the family and community of the victim, who can be considered secondary victims, and when justice is not served, impunity can lead to further victimization in the form of the denial of the basic human right to justice." (UNODC)
+*World Population: from 370 million in 1350 to 7.6 billion in 2018.
+Comparisons:
 ::2016, the number of deaths among children under age 5 dropped below 5 million for the first time in modern history — down from 11 million deaths in 1990 and 16.4 million deaths in 1970. Deaths from HIV/AIDS among both children and adults declined by 46 percent since 2006, and deaths from malaria by 26 percent since 2006. Today's ''''triad of trouble'''': obesity, armed conflict, and mental health issues.
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 For the Rohingya of Myanmar and white farmers in South Africa, things look similarly bleak. Where it is not only the moral quality, but also the quantity and frequency of homicide that is a cause of concern, violence is sometimes (seen as) genocidal.
-'''Homicide in Latin America'''
+'''Homicide in Latin America'''Latin America, which boasts just 8% of the world’s population, accounts for 38% of its criminal killing. The butcher’s bill in the region came to around 140,000 people last year, more than have been lost in wars around the world in almost all of the years this century. And the crime is becoming ever more common.
+Latin America is also the most urbanised part of the developing world, and that is not a coincidence. Its urban population grew in the second half of the 20th century much faster than those of other regions. By 2000 over three-quarters of the population lived in towns and cities
 == The Anthropology of Homicide ==