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Asia > Armenia > Crime

ARMENIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 5.5 % Time series [24th of 38]
Burglaries 92 [53rd of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 14.5 % Time series [20th of 39]
Frauds 776 [50th of 48]
Illicit drugs
illicit cultivation of small amount of cannabis for domestic consumption; minor transit point for illicit drugs - mostly opium and hashish - moving from Southwest Asia to Russia and to a lesser extent the rest of Europe
Murders 127 [46th of 49]
Murders committed by youths 26 [53rd of 73]
Murders committed by youths per capita 1.9 [37th of 57]
Prisoners 2,866 prisoners [110th of 168]
Prisoners > Female 2.2% [106th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 0.1% [83rd of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita 92 per 100,000 people [98th of 164]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 64.3% [119th of 128]
Rapes 28 [61st of 50]
Robberies 162 [59th of 47]
Software piracy rate 93% [1st of 107]
Total crimes 12,048 [57th of 50]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Armenia is primarily a source country for women and girls trafficked to the UAE and Turkey for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation; Armenian men and women are trafficked to Turkey and Russia for the purpose of forced labor
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Armenia is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List for a fourth consecutive year; its efforts to increase compliance with the minimum standards were assessed based on its commitments to undertake future actions, particularly in the areas of improving victim protection and assistance; while the government elevated anti-trafficking responsibilities to the ministerial level, adopted a new National Action Plan, and drafted a National Referral Mechanism, it has yet to show tangible progress in identifying and protecting victims or in tackling trafficking complicity of government officials; the Armenian Government made some notable improvements in its anti-trafficking law enforcement efforts, but it failed to demonstrate evidence of investigations, prosecutions, convictions, and sentences of officials complicit in trafficking
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 10.1 [59th of 143]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; 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; World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; 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); 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: Armenia, Republic of Armenia, Hayastani Hanrapetut'yun, Hayastan

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