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Oceania > Australia > Crime

AUSTRALIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Assault victims 2.4% [4th of 20]
Assaults 141,124 [7th of 57]
    (per capita) 7.02459 per 1,000 people [10th of 57]
Believe in police efficiency 76% [4th of 17]
Bribe payers index 8.1 [2nd of 19]
Bribery victims 0.3% [10th of 16]
Burglaries 436,865 [3rd of 54]
    (per capita) 21.7454 per 1,000 people [1st of 54]
Car thefts 139,094 [8th of 55]
    (per capita) 6.92354 per 1,000 people [1st of 55]
Death penalty > Abolition date 1,985 [44th of 64]
Death penalty > Abolition for ordinary crimes 1,984 [3rd of 20]
Death penalty > Last executed 1,967 [18th of 55]
    (per capita) 11.402 per 1 million people [26th of 44]
Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms 16.3435 [21st of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Firearm homicide rate > per 100,000 pop. 0.3073 [26th of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Non-firearm homicide rate > per 100,000 pop. 1.5729 [27th of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Overall homicide rate > per 100,000 pop. 1.8802 [27th of 32]
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
Jails 98 [22nd of 62]

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SOURCES: UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute). 2002. Correspondence on data on crime victims. March. Turin; Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, covering the period 1998 - 2000 (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); UN International Crime Victims' Survey; Transparency International; Last updated: 01/04/03; United Nations World Surveys on Crime Trends and Criminal Justice Systems, 1970-1994: Restructured Five-Wave Data ; Wikipedia: Gun violence ; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007

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Matt_E (Sydney, NSW)
28th May 2007
Tasmania is one of the worlds biggest opium producers - for medical purposes. It produces opium for processing of morphine.

I cant trust this website I'm afraid.
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