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Crime Stats: compare key data on Australia & North Korea

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STAT Australia North Korea HISTORY
Illicit drugs Tasmania is one of the world's major suppliers of licit opiate products; government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate; major consumer of cocaine and amphetamines for years, from the 1970s into the 2000s, citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea (DPRK), many of them diplomatic employees of the government, were apprehended abroad while trafficking in narcotics, including two in Turkey in December 2004; police investigations in Taiwan and Japan in recent years have linked North Korea to large illicit shipments of heroin and methamphetamine, including an attempt by the North Korean merchant ship Pong Su to deliver 150 kg of heroin to Australia in April 2003
Justice system > Punishment > Capital punishment (last execution year) 1,967
Ranked 41st.
2,013
Ranked 15th. 2% more than Australia
Punishment > Crimes possibly attracting life sentence Treason, terrorism, drug trafficking, rape, serious child sex offences ??
Punishment > Crimes requiring mandatory sentence Murder of police officer or other public official, murder in South Australia, Queensland, Northern Territory, aircraft hijacking Murder, espionage, treason
Punishment > Has indefinite sentence Yes Yes ( de facto and de jure )
Punishment > Has life imprisonment Yes Yes
Punishment > Life sentence under the age of 18 or 21 under 18 : must have minimum term set Yes
Punishment > Maximum length of sentence None None
Punishment > Minimum life sentence to serve before eligibility for requesting parole 10 years, 20 years, 25 years, or never; individually set by judge Never
Violent crime > Gun crime > Guns per 100 residents 15
Ranked 41st. 25 times more than North Korea
0.6
Ranked 156th.
Violent crime > Murder rate 229
Ranked 42nd.
3,658
Ranked 29th. 16 times more than Australia
Violent crime > Murder rate per million people 10.38
Ranked 73th.
150.88
Ranked 45th. 15 times more than Australia
Violent crime > Murders 229
Ranked 42nd.
3,658
Ranked 29th. 16 times more than Australia
Violent crime > Murders per million people 10.38
Ranked 73th.
150.88
Ranked 45th. 15 times more than Australia

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; Wikipedia: Capital punishment in Europe (Abolition); Wikipedia: Life imprisonment (Summary by country); Annexe I of the Small Arms Survey 2007 ; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Source tables; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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