Deltoid

Look in "Experiences of Crime across the World" van Dijk, Mayhew and Killias (1991). This reports the result of an international victimisation survey in the US, Canada, Australia and 11 European countries.

Danny Low said:

The last time I looked at an atlas, the world included places like Mexico and other Latin American countries. The book has a rather grandiose title "across the World" but seems to exclude most of the world. Are the countries you listed the only ones in the book? If it is so I would consider the sample to be very biased.

The only countries. They also surveyed Warsaw and Surabaja. Lack of money and a large percentage of population without telephones makes national surveys difficult in second and third world nations.

It is a survey of victimization. So what are the victimization rates and how well do they correlate with gun ownership? You should have 14 sample points to do a correlation analysis.

                 hand  all
                 gun% gun%  A/T  SA   Rob  Bur  Homicide
 England & Wales  0.5  4.7  5.3  3.4  1.9  9.4  0.7
        Scotland  0.5       5.3  2.9  1.8  9.0  1.8
Northern Ireland  1.5       4.3  3.3  1.5  4.7  5.2
     Netherlands  1.0  2.0  9.3  6.4  2.0  8.9  0.9
    West Germany  6.5  9.2  9.3  7.9  3.0  4.7  1.2
     Switzerland 14.0 32.6  3.9  5.5  2.2  4.0  1.2
         Belgium  6.0 16.8  6.4  4.9  4.0  7.7  1.8
          France  5.5 24.7  7.1  4.3  2.9 10.4  1.2
           Spain  2.0       7.5  6.8  9.1  5.6  1.0
          Norway  3.5 31.2  8.2  4.7  1.5  3.2  1.2
         Finland  7.0 25.5  9.7  4.3  2.7  2.0  2.9
             USA 29.0 48.9 12.7 10.4  5.5 13.7  8.8
          Canada  4.0 30.8  8.8 10.0  2.6 10.2  2.1
       Australia  2.0 20.1 11.6 13.5  2.3 16.6  2.0

Key:
hand gun% is the percentage of households reporting hand gun ownership all gun% is the percentage of households reporting any gun ownership (The all gun% numbers do not all appear in the book -- I was emailed them, but I think they come from the survey. The reference is Security Journal 1(3):169-174, which I have not been able to check out.) A/T is percentage victim of assault or threats in the past five years. SA is the percentage of women victim of sexual assaults or offensive behaviour in the past five years. Rob is percentage victim of robbery in the past five years. Bur is percentage victim of successful burglary in the past five years. Homicide is the average homicide rate (per 100,000 population) 82-88, from the World Health Organization Statistical Yearbook.