186 countries have been categorized in the year 2012 as per 2013 report. According to that categorization El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are ranked at 107th, 133 th and 120th places respectively. Irrespective of the fact that these countries have a middle level human development a higher homicide rate is reported in these countries. On the contrary in the countries which have a lower level human development vis – a – vis these countries, the homicide ratio is at a comparatively lower level. The aforesaid fact indicates that it is not clear whether the development of a country or the implementation of capital punishment makes any impact on the increase of the crime rate. However all the aforesaid three countries are situated in the same region. So it seems that some factors prevalent in the social and cultural atmosphere in the regions may have made some impact on this. The influence of the methodologies such as capital punishment adopted in the prevention of crime is questionable. Iceland, Norway and Sweden are prominent among the countries in which the lowest homicide rate in the world is reported. These countries are Scandinavian countries, which are situated in Northern Europe. The homicide rate in these counties is given below. 10