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America  

Statemaster gives detailed crime stats across all States in much the same way that Nationmaster does internationally.

This page here gives a good breakdown of crime over all US States for 2004, and this page from the same site does the same thing for various US Cities using 2003 data, with the crime categories broken down in greater detail. The FBI site has more detailed data, in Adobe Acrobat pdf format, with detailed reports up to 2006.

The US Bureau of Justice Statistics site has more data on it, in html format. Click on the "Key facts at a Glance" right in the middle with a graph icon next to it. There are lots of graphs and things for all varieties of offences, going back to 1973. Behind each graph is a table of all the data, it really is rather good. Comparisons of crime rates for any two US districts can be done here with a variety of offences covered, plus there's also a good overall breakdown for the US. There's enough material here to keep you going for hours...

The interesting thing about the US is that it had a huge increase in imprisonment rate from the early 1980's through to the late 1990's. Interestingly enough, crime rates started to drop a few years after this, as could be expected. There seems to be little or no relation with economic indicators, even unemployment. A theory has been put forward that the drop in crime is as a result of the legalisation of abortion in 1973 in the US. However even the originators of this theory Steven Levitt of the University of Chicago and John Donohue of Yale University acknowlege that the increased imprisonment rates account for over a third of the drop in crime, and other studies throw some doubt upon the original proposition.