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South America > Brazil > Crime

BRAZILIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 66.91 % ... [3rd of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights 39.61 % ... [10th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 32.54 % ... [3rd of 39]
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation > Broadcast details > Alternate title/Translation
CSI - Investigação Criminal
("CSI - Criminal Investigation")
Illicit drugs
illicit producer of cannabis; trace amounts of coca cultivation in the Amazon region, used for domestic consumption; government has a large-scale eradication program to control cannabis; important transshipment country for Bolivian, Colombian, and Peruvian cocaine headed for Europe; also used by traffickers as a way station for narcotics air transshipments between Peru and Colombia; upsurge in drug-related violence and weapons smuggling; important market for Colombian, Bolivian, and Peruvian cocaine; illicit narcotics proceeds earned in Brazil are often laundered through the financial system; significant illicit financial activity in the Tri-Border Area
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Chamber PTC III (P), PTC I
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Elected 2003
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Name Sylvia Steiner
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Term End 2012
Kidnappings 515 kidnappings [3rd of 9]
    (per capita) 2.76714 kidnappings per 1 millio [6th of 9]
Managers finding crime a restraint 52.04% ... [4th of 0]
Murders committed by youths 20,386 [1st of 73]
Murders committed by youths per capita 32.5 [4th of 0]
Prisoners 308,304 prisoners [5th of 164]
Prisoners > Female 4.1% [69th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 0.4% [80th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita 169 per 100,000 people [50th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 28.1% [81st of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 133.8% [49th of 128]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; Wikipedia: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wikipedia: Judges of the International Criminal Court ; Hiscox Group; World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Brazil, Federative Republic of Brazil, Republica Federativa do Brasil, Brasil

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