Lott paper: Australians dramatically more likely than Americans to be victims of violent crime
6:00am Friday, January 16, 2026
John Lott, PhD, and Crime Prevention Research Center senior fellow Kesten Green, who is also a researcher at the Adelaide University, College of Business and Law, compared the violent crime rates in Australia and the United States. Australian are clearly at much greater risk of violent crime than Americans. Here are the facts.





