The July/August 2007 issue of Foreign Policy magazine seems to confirm our worst fears about crime and more specifically murder.

The article is titled The Hidden Pandemic by Moises Naim.

Here’s a brief snippet:

And Brazil is not even at the top of the list. The world’s most murderous region is the Caribbean, followed by South and West Africa, and then South America. But the trend is global. Russia’s homicide rate is roughly 20 times higher than Western Europe’s. Rising crime rates are also reported throughout Asia. (emphasis added).

Read the entire article here…

With our country’s murder count at 52 for the year, it’s worth a read.

Of course, we should not use the problems faced by other countries as an excuse for our shortcomings, but we can certainly do some investigation to see what others might be doing to help alleviate the issues they face.