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  1. Murder victims by weapon used in the U.S 2023

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    Statista (2024). Murder victims by weapon used in the U.S 2023 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/
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    Nov 12, 2024
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    Time period covered
    2023
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    Handguns are by far the most common murder weapon used in the United States, accounting for 7,159 homicides in 2023. This is followed by firearms of an unstated type, with 5,295 cases in that year. Why do murders happen in the U.S.? While most of the time the circumstances of murders in the U.S. remain unknown, homicides due to narcotics come in as the second most common circumstance – making them more common than, for example, gang killings. Despite these gruesome facts, the violent crime rate has fallen significantly since 1990, and the United States is much safer than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. Knife crime vs disease: Leading causes of death The death rate in the U.S. had hovered around the same level since 1990 until there was a large increase due to the COVID-19 pandemic in recent years. Heart disease, cancer, and accidents were the three leading causes of death in the country in 2022. The rate of death from heart disease is significantly higher than the homicide rate in the United States, at 167.2 deaths per 100,000 population compared to a 5.7 homicides per 100,000. Given just 1,562 murders were caused by knife crime, it is fair to say that heart disease is a far bigger killer in the U.S.

  2. Number of homicide victims, by method used to commit the homicide

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    Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (2025). Number of homicide victims, by method used to commit the homicide [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.25318/3510006901-eng
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    Jul 22, 2025
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    Area covered
    Canada
    Description

    Number of homicide victims, by method used to commit the homicide (total methods used; shooting; stabbing; beating; strangulation; fire (burns or suffocation); other methods used; methods used unknown), Canada, 1974 to 2024.

  3. Number of homicide cases by knives and stab weapons in Norway 2012-2024

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    Updated Jul 24, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Number of homicide cases by knives and stab weapons in Norway 2012-2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1087379/number-of-people-killed-by-knives-and-stab-weapons-in-norway/
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    Jul 24, 2025
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    Norway
    Description

    Since 2012, a knife or another stab weapon was the most common murder weapons used in homicides in Norway. In 2024, in ** of the ** homicides registered, a knife or another stab weapon was the murder weapon. By comparison, the number of people murdered by firearms was lower.

  4. Number of homicide cases in Norway 2013-2023, by method

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    Updated Jul 7, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Number of homicide cases in Norway 2013-2023, by method [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1464319/murders-norway-by-method/
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    Jul 7, 2025
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    Norway
    Description

    Through the past 10 years, a knife or another stab weapon was the most common murder weapon used in homicides in Norway. In 2023, in ** of the ** homicides registered, a knife or another stab weapon was the murder weapon. ** people were murdered by firearms the same year, the highest during the period under consideration.

  5. Knife and Offensive Weapon Sentencing Statistics: July to September 2022

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    Ministry of Justice (2023). Knife and Offensive Weapon Sentencing Statistics: July to September 2022 [Dataset]. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/knife-and-offensive-weapon-sentencing-statistics-july-to-september-2022
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    Feb 16, 2023
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    GOV.UKhttp://gov.uk/
    Authors
    Ministry of Justice
    Description

    Contents

    1. Statistican’s comment

    2. Knife and offensive weapon offences overview

    3. Sentencing

    4. Offending History

    5. Sentencing for repeat convictions of possession of a knife or offensive weapon

    6. Further information

    7. Future publications and contact details for any queries or feedback

    8. Pre-release access

    This publication presents key statistics describing the trends in the number of offenders receiving cautions and convictions for

    • possession of an article with a blade or point

    • possession of an offensive weapon, or

    • threatening with either type of weapon

    in England and Wales. Please note that cases still awaiting final decisions are no longer accounted for using estimation methodology. These are generally cases in the latest periods and are now counted as ‘other’ disposals until final decisions are made unless separately specified.

    Accompanying files

    As well as this bulletin, the following products are published as part of this release:

    • ODS format tables containing data on knife or offensive weapon offences up to the end of September 2022

    • An interactive table tool to look at previous offences involving possession of a blade, point or offensive weapon. The tool provides further breakdowns by gender, police identified ethnicity and prosecuting police force area. The data used in the tool is also included as a separate csv file.

    • An interactive https://moj-analytical-services.github.io/knife_possession_sankey/index.html" class="govuk-link">Sankey diagram looking at outcomes for offenders sentenced for these offences by whether or not they have a previous conviction or caution for possession of a blade, point or offensive weapon; which includes breakdowns by gender, age group and offence type.

    This publication covers the period from year ending September 2012 to year ending September 2022. In the last three years of this period the work of the courts has been impacted by the restrictions imposed in response to the COVID pandemic, such as court closures and subsequent backlogs, and also industrial action by criminal barristers taking place between April 2022 and September 2022. This should be borne in mind when making comparisons.

    Main points

    PointChangeCommentary
    The number of knife and offensive weapon offences dealt with by the Criminal Justice System (CJS) has decreased since year ending September 2021 but is still higher than at the very start of the pandemic.DecreaseIn year ending September 2022 19,378 knife and offensive weapon offences were formally dealt with by the CJS. This is a decrease of 5% since year ending September 2021, but is 6% higher than in year ending September 2020 which includes the lockdown at the very start of the pandemic.
    The proportion of offenders receiving an immediate custodial sentence for a knife and offensive weapon offence remained stable at 30% between year ending September 2021 and year ending September 2022.No ChangeThis had been broadly stable at around 36%-39% between year ending September 2017 and year ending September 2020 but dropped to 30% in year ending September 2021 and remained stable over the following year. In this period there was a corresponding increase in the proportion of offenders receiving a suspended sentence.
    For 70% of offenders this was their first knife or offensive weapon offence.DecreaseThe proportion of offenders for whom this is their first knife or offensive weapon offence has been decreasing over the last decade, from 76% in year ending September 2012 to 70% in year ending September 2022 but has been roughly stable since year ending September 2017.
    The average custodial sentence received by offenders sentenced for convictions under Section 315 of the Sentencing Act 2020 wa

  6. Number of homicides involving a knife in England and Wales 2008-2024

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    Updated Feb 10, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Number of homicides involving a knife in England and Wales 2008-2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/978830/knife-homicides-in-england-and-wales/
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    Feb 10, 2025
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    Apr 1, 2008 - Mar 31, 2024
    Area covered
    Wales, England
    Description

    In 2023/24 there were 262 homicides involving a knife or other sharp instrument in England and Wales, compared with 243 in the previous reporting year. During the provided time period, knife homicides have fluctuated from a low of 186 in 2014/15 to the high seen in the 2017/18 reporting year.

  7. Knife and Offensive Weapon Sentencing Statistics: October to December 2022

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    Ministry of Justice (2023). Knife and Offensive Weapon Sentencing Statistics: October to December 2022 [Dataset]. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/knife-and-offensive-weapon-sentencing-statistics-october-to-december-2022
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    Dataset updated
    May 18, 2023
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    GOV.UKhttp://gov.uk/
    Authors
    Ministry of Justice
    Description

    Contents

    1. Statistican’s comment

    2. Knife and offensive weapon offences overview

    3. Sentencing

    4. Offending History

    5. Sentencing under the Sentencing Act 2020

    6. Further information

    7. Future publications and contact details for any queries or feedback

    8. Pre-release access

    This publication presents key statistics describing the trends in the number of offenders receiving cautions and convictions for

    • possession of an article with a blade or point

    • possession of an offensive weapon, or

    • threatening with either type of weapon

    in England and Wales. Please note that cases still awaiting final decisions are no longer accounted for using estimation methodology. These are generally cases in the latest periods and are now counted as ‘other’ disposals until final decisions are made unless separately specified.

    Accompanying files

    As well as this bulletin, the following products are published as part of this release:

    • ODS format tables containing data on knife or offensive weapon offences up to December 2022

    • An interactive table tool to look at previous offences involving possession of a blade, point or offensive weapon. The tool provides further breakdowns by gender, police identified ethnicity and prosecuting police force area. The data used in the tool is also included as a separate csv file.

    • An interactive https://moj-analytical-services.github.io/knife_possession_sankey/index.html" class="govuk-link">Sankey diagram looking at outcomes for offenders sentenced for these offences by whether or not they have a previous conviction or caution for possession of a blade, point or offensive weapon; which includes breakdowns by gender, age group and offence type.

    This publication covers the period from 2012 to 2022. In the last three years of this period the work of the courts has been impacted by the restrictions imposed in response to the COVID pandemic, which led to court closures and subsequent backlogs, as well as any effects of the industrial action by criminal barristers taking place between April 2022 and October 2022. This should be borne in mind when making comparisons.

    Main points

    PointChangeCommentary
    The number of knife and offensive weapon offences dealt with by the Criminal Justice System (CJS) has decreased since 2021 but is still higher than at the very start of the pandemic.DecreaseIn 2022 19,292 knife and offensive weapon offences were dealt with by the CJS. This is a decrease of 2% from 2021, and a decrease of 14% from 2019 before the pandemic; but is 4% higher than 2020 when the work of the courts was impacted by the restrictions imposed.
    The proportion of offenders receiving an immediate custodial sentence for a knife and offensive weapon offence fell from 38% in 2019 to 30% 2022.DecreaseThis had been broadly stable at around 37%-38% between 2017 and 2019 before falling over subsequent years to 30% in 2022. In this period there was a corresponding increase in the proportion of offenders receiving a suspended sentence from 20% in 2019 to 25% in 2022.
    For 70% of offenders this was their first knife or offensive weapon possession offence.DecreaseThe proportion of offenders for whom this is their first knife or offensive weapon possession offence has decreased over the last decade, from 75% in 2012 to 70% in 2022 but has been broadly stable between 71% and 70% since 2019.
    The average custodial sentence received by offenders convicted for repeat possession offences under Section 315 of the Sentencing Act 2020 was 7.7 months in 2022.IncreaseThis had decreased from 7.8 months in 2019 to 7.4 months in both 2020 and 2021 but increased again in 2022.

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  8. Number and rate of homicide victims, by Census Metropolitan Areas

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    Updated Jul 22, 2025
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    Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (2025). Number and rate of homicide victims, by Census Metropolitan Areas [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.25318/3510007101-eng
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    Jul 22, 2025
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    Statistics Canadahttps://statcan.gc.ca/en
    Area covered
    Canada
    Description

    Number and rate (per 100,000 population) of homicide victims, Canada and Census Metropolitan Areas, 1981 to 2024.

  9. Knife and offensive weapon sentencing statistics: October to December 2019

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    Updated Mar 12, 2020
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    Ministry of Justice (2020). Knife and offensive weapon sentencing statistics: October to December 2019 [Dataset]. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/knife-and-offensive-weapon-sentencing-statistics-october-to-december-2019
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    Mar 12, 2020
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    GOV.UKhttp://gov.uk/
    Authors
    Ministry of Justice
    Description

    This bulletin presents key statistics describing the trends in the number of knife or offensive weapon offences receiving cautions and convictions in England and Wales. This bulletin does not cover all knife or offensive weapon crimes (offences involving a knife or offensive weapon) as published by the Office for National Statistics.

    The information presented combines all three types of knife or offensive weapon offences; possession of an article with a blade or point in a public place or on school premises; possession of an offensive weapon without lawful authority or reasonable excuse in a public place or on school premises and offences of aggravated possession of a knife or offensive weapon.

    Three extra documents accompany this bulletin:

    1. An interactive table tool showing the criminal history of knife or offensive weapon offenders, giving breakdowns by prosecuting police force, gender and ethnic appearance as well as previous offences, disposal, age group and year.

    2. An https://moj-analytical-services.github.io/knife_possession_sankey/index.html" class="govuk-link">interactive Sankey diagram (a type of flow diagram, in which the width of the arrows is shown proportionally to the number each represents) presenting information on outcomes and criminal history of offenders sentenced or cautioned for a knife or offensive weapon offence.

    3. A complete set of tables.

    The bulletin was produced and handled by the ministry’s analytical professionals and production staff. For the bulletin pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

    Ministry of Justice:

    Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – covering youth justice; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – covering sentencing; Permanent Secretary; Minister and Permanent Secretary Private Secretaries (9); Special Advisors (2); Deputy Director for Bail, Sentencing and Release Policy; Head of Custodial Sentencing Policy Unit; Senior Policy Advisor, Custodial Sentencing Policy Unit; Head of Courts & Sentencing, Youth Justice Policy; Policy Advisor, Youth Sentencing; Head of News and relevant press officers (3).

    Youth Justice Board:

    Data Analyst, YJB Information and Analysis.

    Home Office:

    Home Secretary; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime, Policing and the Fire Service; Minister Private Secretaries (4); Special Advisor; Assistant Private Secretary to the Special Advisors; Head of Weapons team, Serious Violence Unit; Head of Serious Violence Unit; Policy Advisor, Serious Violence Unit; Statistician, Violent Crime; and relevant press officers (2).

    Cabinet Office:

    Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; Principal Analyst, Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit.

  10. Data from: Uniform Crime Reports: Monthly Weapon-Specific Crime and Arrest...

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    Updated Mar 12, 2025
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    Bureau of Justice Statistics (2025). Uniform Crime Reports: Monthly Weapon-Specific Crime and Arrest Time Series, 1975-1993 [National, State, and 12-City Data] [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/uniform-crime-reports-monthly-weapon-specific-crime-and-arrest-time-series-1975-1993-natio-09efd
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    Mar 12, 2025
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    Description

    These data were prepared in conjunction with a project using Bureau of Labor Statistics data (not provided with this collection) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program data to examine the relationship between unemployment and violent crime. Three separate time-series data files were created as part of this project: a national time series (Part 1), a state time series (Part 2), and a time series of data for 12 selected cities: Baltimore, Buffalo, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark, New York City, Paterson (New Jersey), and Philadelphia (Part 3). Each data file was constructed to include 82 monthly time series: 26 series containing the number of Part I (crime index) offenses known to police (excluding arson) by weapon used, 26 series of the number of offenses cleared by arrest or other exceptional means by weapon used in the offense, 26 series of the number of offenses cleared by arrest or other exceptional means for persons under 18 years of age by weapon used in the offense, a population estimate series, and three date indicator series. For the national and state data, agencies from the 50 states and Washington, DC, were included in the aggregated data file if they reported at least one month of information during the year. In addition, agencies that did not report their own data (and thus had no monthly observations on crime or arrests) were included to make the aggregated population estimate as close to Census estimates as possible. For the city time series, law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction over the 12 central cities were identified and the monthly data were extracted from each UCR annual file for each of the 12 agencies. The national time-series file contains 82 time series, the state file contains 4,083 time series, and the city file contains 963 time series, each with 228 monthly observations per time series. The unit of analysis is the month of observation. Monthly crime and clearance totals are provided for homicide, negligent manslaughter, total rape, forcible rape, attempted forcible rape, total robbery, firearm robbery, knife/cutting instrument robbery, other dangerous weapon robbery, strong-arm robbery, total assault, firearm assault, knife/cutting instrument assault, other dangerous weapon assault, simple nonaggravated assault, assaults with hands/fists/feet, total burglary, burglary with forcible entry, unlawful entry-no force, attempted forcible entry, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, auto theft, truck and bus theft, other vehicle theft, and grand total of all actual offenses.

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    Prison firearms and ammunition knife and weapon control regulations number...

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    Updated Jun 25, 2025
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    Department of Statistics (2025). Prison firearms and ammunition knife and weapon control regulations number of people according to the number of offenses (statistics) [Dataset]. https://data.gov.tw/en/datasets/15067
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    Dataset updated
    Jun 25, 2025
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    Description

    The number of people in prison is determined according to the regulations on the control of guns, ammunition, and knives based on the offense.

  12. Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, police services in...

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    Updated Jul 22, 2025
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    Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (2025). Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, police services in Manitoba [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.25318/3510018101-eng
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    Jul 22, 2025
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    Statistics Canadahttps://statcan.gc.ca/en
    Area covered
    Manitoba, Canada
    Description

    Incident-based crime statistics (actual incidents, rate per 100,000 population, percentage change in rate, unfounded incidents, percent unfounded, total cleared, cleared by charge, cleared otherwise, persons charged, adults charged, youth charged / not charged), by detailed violations (violent, property, traffic, drugs, other Federal Statutes), police services in Manitoba, 1998 to 2024.

  13. Crime in England and Wales: Police Force Area data tables

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    Updated Jul 24, 2025
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    Office for National Statistics (2025). Crime in England and Wales: Police Force Area data tables [Dataset]. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables
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    Dataset updated
    Jul 24, 2025
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    Office for National Statisticshttp://www.ons.gov.uk/
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    Open Government Licence 3.0http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    Police recorded crime figures by Police Force Area and Community Safety Partnership areas (which equate in the majority of instances, to local authorities).

  14. Gun violence rate U.S. 2025, by state

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    Updated Jun 23, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Gun violence rate U.S. 2025, by state [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1380025/us-gun-violence-rate-by-state/
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    Jun 23, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
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    Time period covered
    2025
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    In recent years, gun violence in the United States has become an alarmingly common occurrence. From 2016, there has been over ****** homicides by firearm in the U.S. each year and firearms have been found to make up the majority of murder weapons in the country by far, demonstrating increasing rates of gun violence occurring throughout the nation. As of 2025, Mississippi was the state with the highest gun violence rate per 100,000 residents in the United States, at **** percent, followed by Louisiana, at **** percent. In comparison, Massachusetts had a gun violence rate of *** percent, the lowest out of all the states. The importance of gun laws Gun laws in the United States vary from state to state, which has been found to affect the differing rates of gun violence throughout the country. Fewer people die by gun violence in states where gun safety laws have been passed, while gun violence rates remain high in states where gun usage is easily permitted and even encouraged. In addition, some states suffer from high rates of gun violence despite having strong gun safety laws due to gun trafficking, as traffickers can distribute firearms illegally past state lines. The right to bear arms Despite evidence from other countries demonstrating that strict gun control measures reduce rates of gun violence, the United States has remained reluctant to enact gun control laws. This can largely be attributed to the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which states that citizens have the right to bear arms. Consequently, gun control has become a highly partisan issue in the U.S., with ** percent of Democrats believing that it was more important to limit gun ownership while ** percent of Republicans felt that it was more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns.

  15. Homicides by method of killing in England and Wales 2024

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    Updated Jun 25, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Homicides by method of killing in England and Wales 2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/288166/homicide-method-of-killing-in-england-and-wales-uk/
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    Dataset updated
    Jun 25, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    Apr 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
    Area covered
    Wales, England
    Description

    Knives or other sharp objects were involved in ** percent of homicides in England and Wales in 2023/24, the most of any method of killing. Homicides which involved hitting or kicking without a weapon made up **** percent of homicides, while shootings were identified as the method in *** percent of homicides. Overall, there were *** homicides in this reporting year, which was slightly lower than in the previous year, when there were ***, but noticeably higher than in 2014/15, when there were ***. Firearm homicides rare in England and Wales In 2023/24, there were *** knife homicides in England and Wales, compared with *** in 2021/22, which was the highest figure recently. By comparison, homicides which involved the use of a firearm were far less common, with just ** in the 2023/24 reporting year. Due to strict gun laws and low levels of ownership, the UK contrasts starkly with the United States, which has struggled with high levels of gun violence. Although some specialist police officers in England and Wales are licensed to carry firearms, the majority of police officers are unarmed. In 2023/24, for example, there were just ***** armed police, out of around ******* police officers. Overall knife crime on the rise Like many other types of crime, knife crime offences in the ***** started to decline at the start of the decade before creeping up again from 2014 onwards, reaching almost ****** in 2019/20. In London, where much of the media’s attention on knife crime is focused, there were ****** knife crime offences alone in 2019/20. Although this fell during subsequent reporting years, which were influenced by COVID-19 restrictions, it remains to be seen if the trend will continue. In 2023/24, the number of knife offences in the capital was higher than in any other year since 2019/20.

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    Data from: Violent Incidents Among Selected Public School Students in Two...

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    National Institute of Justice (2025). Violent Incidents Among Selected Public School Students in Two Large Cities of the South and the Southern Midwest, 1995: [United States] [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/violent-incidents-among-selected-public-school-students-in-two-large-cities-of-the-south-a-de93c
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    Mar 12, 2025
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    National Institute of Justice
    Area covered
    Midwestern United States, United States
    Description

    This study of violent incidents among middle- and high-school students focused not only on the types and frequency of these incidents, but also on their dynamics -- the locations, the opening moves, the relationship between the disputants, the goals and justifications of the aggressor, the role of third parties, and other factors. For this study, violence was defined as an act carried out with the intention, or perceived intention, of physically injuring another person, and the "opening move" was defined as the action of a respondent, antagonist, or third party that was viewed as beginning the violent incident. Data were obtained from interviews with 70 boys and 40 girls who attended public schools with populations that had high rates of violence. About half of the students came from a middle school in an economically disadvantaged African-American section of a large southern city. The neighborhood the school served, which included a public housing project, had some of the country's highest rates of reported violent crime. The other half of the sample were volunteers from an alternative high school attended by students who had committed serious violations of school rules, largely involving illegal drugs, possession of handguns, or fighting. Many students in this high school, which is located in a large city in the southern part of the Midwest, came from high-crime areas, including public housing communities. The interviews were open-ended, with the students encouraged to speak at length about any violent incidents in school, at home, or in the neighborhood in which they had been involved. The 110 interviews yielded 250 incidents and are presented as text files, Parts 3 and 4. The interview transcriptions were then reduced to a quantitative database with the incident as the unit of analysis (Part 1). Incidents were diagrammed, and events in each sequence were coded and grouped to show the typical patterns and sub-patterns in the interactions. Explanations the students offered for the violent-incident behavior were grouped into two categories: (1) "justifications," in which the young people accepted responsibility for their violent actions but denied that the actions were wrong, and (2) "excuses," in which the young people admitted the act was wrong but denied responsibility. Every case in the incident database had at least one physical indicator of force or violence. The respondent-level file (Part 2) was created from the incident-level file using the AGGREGATE procedure in SPSS. Variables in Part 1 include the sex, grade, and age of the respondent, the sex and estimated age of the antagonist, the relationship between respondent and antagonist, the nature and location of the opening move, the respondent's response to the opening move, persons present during the incident, the respondent's emotions during the incident, the person who ended the fight, punishments imposed due to the incident, whether the respondent was arrested, and the duration of the incident. Additional items cover the number of times during the incident that something was thrown, the respondent was pushed, slapped, or spanked, was kicked, bit, or hit with a fist or with something else, was beaten up, cut, or bruised, was threatened with a knife or gun, or a knife or gun was used on the respondent. Variables in Part 2 include the respondent's age, gender, race, and grade at the time of the interview, the number of incidents per respondent, if the respondent was an armed robber or a victim of an armed robbery, and whether the respondent had something thrown at him/her, was pushed, slapped, or spanked, was kicked, bit, or hit with a fist or with something else, was beaten up, was threatened with a knife or gun, or had a knife or gun used on him/her.

  17. London Knife Crime Ad Hoc

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    Ministry of Justice (2024). London Knife Crime Ad Hoc [Dataset]. https://thegovernmentsays-files.s3.amazonaws.com/content/188/1882409.html
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    Nov 14, 2024
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    Ministry of Justice
    Area covered
    London
    Description

    This release is intended to provide transparency into those eligible for the Mayor of London Office for Police and Crime (MOPAC) GPS knife crime pilot. The bulletin presents information on individuals convicted of knife crime offences in London and is split into two datasets to provide full coverage of those eligible.

    Pre-release access

    The ad hoc was produced and handled by the ministry’s analytical professionals and production staff. For the ad hoc pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

    Deputy Director of Data and Statistics Prisons, Probation and Reoffending and Head of Profession for Statistics; Head of HMPPS Performance; Head of Community Performance; Senior Policy Advisor, Electronic Monitoring and Early Resolution Policy; Press Officer
  18. Knife Possession Sentencing Statistics - Dataset - data.gov.uk

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    ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk (2016). Knife Possession Sentencing Statistics - Dataset - data.gov.uk [Dataset]. https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/dataset/knife-possession-sentencing-statistics
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    Dec 8, 2016
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    Open Government Licence 3.0http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    This series of publications contain key statistics describing trends in cautioning and sentencing, probation supervision and the prison population for offences involving the possession of a knife or offensive weapon in England and Wales.

  19. Knife possession sentencing quarterly brief: April to June 2017

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    Ministry of Justice (2017). Knife possession sentencing quarterly brief: April to June 2017 [Dataset]. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/knife-possession-sentencing-quarterly-brief-april-to-june-2017
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    Sep 14, 2017
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    Ministry of Justice
    Description

    This bulletin presents key statistics describing the trends in the number of offenders receiving cautions and convictions, and in the prison population for possession of knife offences in England and Wales. This bulletin does not cover all knife crimes (offences involving a knife) as published by the Office for National Statistics. The information presented combines all three types of knife and weapon possession offences; possession offences of having an article with a blade or point in a public place or on school premises; possession of offensive weapon without lawful authority or reasonable excuse in a public place or on school premises and offences of aggravated possession of a knife or offensive weapon.

    An https://moj-analytical-services.github.io/knife_possession_sankey/index.html" class="govuk-link">interactive Sankey diagram (a type of flow diagram, in which the width of the arrows is shown proportionally to the number each represents) presenting information on outcomes and criminal history of offenders sentenced or cautioned for a knife possession offence accompanies this bulletin.

    The bulletin is produced and handled by the ministry’s analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

    Ministry of Justice

    Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice; Minister of State for Justice; Permanent Secretary; Minister and Permanent Secretary Private Secretaries (7); Special Advisors (2); Head of Criminal Law & Sentencing Policy Unit; Policy advisor in Criminal Law & Sentencing Policy Unit; Deputy Director, Youth Justice Policy (2), Head of Courts and Sentencing - Youth Justice Policy Unit; Senior policy advisor in Youth Sentencing; Director of Communications; Head of News and relevant press officers (4).

    Home Office

    Home Secretary; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Vulnerability, Safeguarding and Countering Extremism; Minister Private Secretaries (2); Lead Statistician; relevant press officers (2) and policy lead (2).

    Cabinet Office

    Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; Senior Policy Advisor, Justice and Devolution

  20. Deaths; murder and manslaughter, crime scene in The Netherlands

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    Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (2025). Deaths; murder and manslaughter, crime scene in The Netherlands [Dataset]. https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/figures/detail/84726ENG
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    Dataset updated
    Aug 28, 2025
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    Statistics Netherlands
    Authors
    Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Time period covered
    1996 - 2024
    Area covered
    Netherlands
    Description

    This table contains the number of persons died as a result of murder or manslaughter, where the crime scene is located in the Netherlands. The victims can be residents or non-residents of the Netherlands. The data can be split by location of the crime, method, age and sex. The criterion is the date of death, the date of the criminal act can be in the previous year. Since 2013 Statistics Netherlands is using Iris for automatic coding for causes of death. This improved the international comparison of the data. The change in coding did cause a considerable shift in the statistics. Since 2013 the (yearly) ICD-10 updates are applied. However for murder and manslaughter no changes in coding have taken place. The ICD-10 codes that belong to murder and manslaughter are X85-Y09.

    Data available from: 1996

    Status of the figures: The figures up to and including 2023 are final, the figures for 2024 are provisional.

    Changes as of August 28th 2025: The provisional figures for 2024 are added.

    When will new figures be published: In the first quarter of 2026 the final figures for 2024 will be published.

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Statista (2024). Murder victims by weapon used in the U.S 2023 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/
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Murder victims by weapon used in the U.S 2023

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Dataset updated
Nov 12, 2024
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Time period covered
2023
Area covered
United States
Description

Handguns are by far the most common murder weapon used in the United States, accounting for 7,159 homicides in 2023. This is followed by firearms of an unstated type, with 5,295 cases in that year. Why do murders happen in the U.S.? While most of the time the circumstances of murders in the U.S. remain unknown, homicides due to narcotics come in as the second most common circumstance – making them more common than, for example, gang killings. Despite these gruesome facts, the violent crime rate has fallen significantly since 1990, and the United States is much safer than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. Knife crime vs disease: Leading causes of death The death rate in the U.S. had hovered around the same level since 1990 until there was a large increase due to the COVID-19 pandemic in recent years. Heart disease, cancer, and accidents were the three leading causes of death in the country in 2022. The rate of death from heart disease is significantly higher than the homicide rate in the United States, at 167.2 deaths per 100,000 population compared to a 5.7 homicides per 100,000. Given just 1,562 murders were caused by knife crime, it is fair to say that heart disease is a far bigger killer in the U.S.

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