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Europe > Belgium > Crime

BELGIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Assault victims 1.2% [10th of 20]
Believe in police efficiency 64% [14th of 17]
Bribe payers index 6.8 [8th of 19]
Bribery victims 0.3% [9th of 16]
Death penalty > Abolition date 1,996 [17th of 64]
Death penalty > Last executed 1,950 [26th of 55]
Drug offences 448.7 per 100,000 people [5th of 34]
    (per capita) 24.345 per 1 million people [18th of 44]
Illicit drugs
growing producer of synthetic drugs and cannabis; transit point for US-bound ecstasy; source of precursor chemicals for South American cocaine processors; transshipment point for cocaine, heroin, hashish, and marijuana entering Western Europe; despite a strengthening of legislation, the country remains vulnerable to money laundering related to narcotics, automobiles, alcohol, and tobacco; significant domestic consumption of ecstasy
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Chamber Trial
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Elected 2003
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Name Rene Blattmann
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Term End 2009
Murders committed by youths 37 [48th of 73]
Murders committed by youths per capita 1.4 [47th of 0]
Perception of safety > Burglary 48% [12th of 17]
Perception of safety > Walking in dark 77% [9th of 15]
Prisoners 9,147 prisoners [65th of 164]
Prisoners > Female 4.1% [65th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 40.9% [10th of 86]

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SOURCES: UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute). 2002. Correspondence on data on crime victims. March. Turin; UN International Crime Victims' Survey; Transparency International; Last updated: 01/04/03; UNODC; United Nations World Surveys on Crime Trends and Criminal Justice Systems, 1970-1994: Restructured Five-Wave Data ; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wikipedia: Judges of the International Criminal Court ; World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Belgium, Kingdom of Belgium, Royaume de Belgique/Koninkrijk Belgie, Belgique/Belgie

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