Prisoners per Homicide as Justice Metric

Compare countries not only by homicide rate but by the ratio of prisoners to homicides (prisoners per homicide) to measure how intensely jurisdictions incarcerate relative to lethal violence. That metric reveals whether high incarceration reflects high violent crime or a policy choice to imprison more people per unit of serious crime. — Provides a simple, cross‑national way to surface mismatches between crime burden and carceral severity, reframing debates about incarceration costs and reforms.