Quote from: bryant.coleman on June 07, 2014, 04:45:11 PM

Quote from: niothor on June 07, 2014, 03:40:10 PM

I wonder why Japan has such unbelievable low rates...

Very simple. The Japanese police is one of the most efficient of its type in the world. They have around 99.8% conviction rate, for all crimes.

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1086/468111?uid=3738256&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21104123198157

Also there are several other facts, such as lack of immigration, ethnic homogeneity of the society.etc

Unfortunately it's not that simple....

Did you read the second paragraph on the article you quoted?

If the murder rate would be down because of the conviction rate the other crimes would be also down like that but the percentages are not showing it at all.