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Acquitted
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340 |
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[23rd of 30]
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Assaults
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554 |
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[46th of 49]
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Car thefts
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198 |
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[43rd of 46]
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Drug offences
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250 per 100,000 people |
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[44th of 46]
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Illicit drugs
increasingly active transshipment point for Southwest Asian opiates, hashish, and cannabis transiting the Balkan route and - to a lesser extent - cocaine from South America destined for Western Europe; limited opium and growing cannabis production; ethnic Albanian narcotrafficking organizations active and expanding in Europe; vulnerable to money laundering associated with regional trafficking in narcotics, arms, contraband, and illegal aliens |
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Jails
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11 |
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[42nd of 80]
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Kidnappings
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15 kidnappings |
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[28th of 39]
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Murders
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179 |
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[29th of 49]
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Murders committed by youths
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325 |
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[16th of 73]
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Murders committed by youths per capita
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28.2 |
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[5th of 57]
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Murders with firearms
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135 |
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[10th of 36]
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Police
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11,987 |
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[34th of 47]
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Prisoners
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1,532 prisoners |
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[45th of 168]
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Prisoners > Per capita
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105 per 100,000 people |
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[87th of 164]
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Rapes
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45 |
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[45th of 50]
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Robberies
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220 |
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[40th of 47]
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Software piracy rate
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78% |
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[32nd of 107]
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Total crimes
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5,303 |
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[50th of 50]
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Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Albania is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons in 2007, particularly in the area of victim protection; the government did not appropriately identify trafficking victims during 2007, and has not demonstrated that it is vigorously investigating or prosecuting complicit officials |
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Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
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84.5 |
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[7th of 143]
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SOURCES: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study; Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets
Ray Fisman Edward Miguel
Columbia University and NBER University of California, Berkeley and NBER 2006
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Albania, Republic of Albania, Republika e Shqiperise, Shqiperia
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