Oh, and Kid Nate:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/viortrdtab.htm

See also - "The same pattern can be seen throughout Europe--indeed, in much of the developed world. Crime has recently hit record highs in Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Toronto, and a host of other major cities. In a 2001 study, the British Home Office (the equivalent of the U.S. Department of Justice) found violent and property crime increased in the late 1990s in every wealthy country except the United States. American property crime rates have been lower than those in Britain, Canada, and France since the early 1990s, and violent crime rates throughout the E.U., Australia, and Canada have recently begun to equal and even surpass those in the United States. Even Sweden, once the epitome of cosmopolitan  
socialist prosperity, now has a crime victimization rate 20 percent higher than the United States." -- From "Crime without Punshment", a book about the differences in punishment vs the crime committed around the world.