Crime & Drug Policy

ranking crime in canada and the united states

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Comparing Recent Crime Trends in Canada and the United States: An Introduction

November 28, 2024 | By: Livio Di Matteo

Comparing Recent Crime Trends in Canada and the United States: An Introduction is a new study, and first chapter of a larger study examining crime rates between the two countries and focuses on national comparisons, that finds from 2014 (a year when crimes rates reached their lowest) to 2022 (the most recent comparable year of data), the violent crime rate in Canada increased by 43.8 percent to 434.1 violent crimes per 100,000 people. That’s now higher than the violent crime rate in the U.S., which only increased 5.3 percent over the same period.

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The Cost of Crime in Canada: 2014 Report

October 16, 2014 | By: Stephen T. Easton, Hilary Furness and Paul Brantingham

Despite a decline in the crime rate, crime cost Canadians $85 billion in 2009 (the latest year with comprehensive data) including $47 billion incurred by crime victims, finds a new study by Stephen Easton, Hilary Furness, and Paul Brantingham. The study, The Cost of Crime in Canada 2014, measures the overall costs of police, courts, prisons, rehabilitation and education. And the varied costs incurred by crime victims due to stolen or damaged property, crime prevention, lost health and productivity, and less tangible costs associated with anger, frustration and fear.

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Police and Crime Rates in Canada

September 22, 2014 | By: Livio Di Matteo

Canadian cities such as Winnipeg and Windsor, Ont., burden taxpayers with overstaffed police departments, finds a new study by Livio Di Matteo. The study, Police and Crime Rates in Canada, analyzes policing levels, local crime rates and other socio-economic factors (i.e. median family income, unemployment rates, youth populations) using StatsCan data over a 10-year period to calculate the optimal number of police officers in Canada’s metropolitan areas. The actual number of police officers is compared to the optimal number in each metropolitan area.

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Combatting the Contraband Tobacco Trade in Canada

December 1, 2011 | By: Nachum Gabler

Contraband tobacco has been a recurring problem in Canada, and one that has become noticeably worse over the past decade. It has been estimated that contraband tobacco makes up roughly 30% of the total Canadian tobacco market. In 2009, the RCMP seized a record high of 975,000 cartons of contraband cigarettes.