NationMaster - Sri Lankan Crime statistics

> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	14 %	...	[5th of 38]
Burglaries	12,666		[33rd of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	16.89 %	...	[7th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	31.17 %	...	[4th of 39]
Jails	29		[37th of 0]
Police	34,609		[21st of 47]
Prisoners	19,974 prisoners		[45th of 0]
Prisoners > Female	3.5%		[82nd of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita	105 per 100,000 people		[86th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	51.6%		[32nd of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	189.8%		[16th of 128]
Rapes	1,202		[27th of 50]
Robberies	4,647		[28th of 47]
Software piracy rate	90%		[6th of 107]
United States extradition treaties > Date signed	October 30, 1999
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force	January 12, 2001
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	17.2		[40th 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); International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study; Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties ; 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: Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, ceylon

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