Although homicide is a rare crime, especially when compared to other crimes against the person and property, research has shown that homicide is typically associated with many other milder types of crimes (UNODC, 2011). In most OECD countries, homicides are low (below 2.5 homicides per 100 000 population).22 They are, however, more than twice as high in the United States, Estonia and Chile, and even higher in Mexico and Brazil. Men make up the majority of all victims of intentional homicides (except in Korea and Slovenia, where homicide rates are slightly higher for women than for men). Against this overall pattern, there are significant differences in the sex distribution of homicide victims.