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South America > Argentina > Crime

ARGENTINE CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Assaults 185,973 [5th of 49]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 4.33 % Time series [14th of 39]
Drug offences 15,508 per 100,000 people [15th of 46]
Illicit drugs
a transshipment country for cocaine headed for Europe; some money-laundering activity, especially in the Tri-Border Area; law enforcement corruption; a source for precursor chemicals; increasing domestic consumption of drugs in urban centers, especially cocaine base and synthetic drugs
Jails 166 [11th of 80]
Manslaughters 3,767 [3rd of 42]
Murders 3,453 [5th of 49]
Murders committed by youths 628 [13th of 73]
Murders committed by youths per capita 5.2 [29th of 57]
Prisoners 44,969 prisoners [15th of 168]
Prisoners > Female 9.5% [7th of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita 107 per 100,000 people [83rd of 164]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 119.9% [59th of 128]
Rapes 3,036 [8th of 50]
Robberies 469,899 [1st of 47]
Software piracy rate 74% [37th of 107]
Total crimes 1,340,529 [11th of 50]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Argentina is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor; most victims are trafficked within the country, from rural to urban areas; child sex tourism is a problem; foreign women and children, primarily from Paraguay, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic, are trafficked to Argentina for commercial sexual exploitation; Argentine women and girls are also trafficked to neighboring countries, Mexico, and Western Europe for sexual exploitation; a significant number of Bolivians, Peruvians, and Paraguayans are trafficked into the country for forced labor in sweatshops, agriculture, and as domestic servants
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - despite some progress, Argentina remains on the Tier 2 Watch List for the third consecutive year for its failure to show evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking, particularly in terms of providing adequate assistance to victims and curbing official complicity with trafficking activity, especially on the provincial and local levels; the Argentine Congress has demonstrated progress by enacting much-needed and first-ever federal anti-trafficking legislation
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 3.9 [91st 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); World Development Indicators database; 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); 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: Argentina, Argentine Republic, Republica Argentina

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