NationMaster - Chilean Crime statistics

Manslaughters	183	[14th of 42]
Murders	235	[37th of 49]
Murders committed by youths	146	[27th of 73]
Murders committed by youths per capita	3	[33rd of 0]
Murders with firearms	9	[31st of 36]
Police	30,090	[21st of 47]
Prisoners	36,636 prisoners	[16th of 0]
Prisoners > Female	6.3%	[23rd of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners	2.9%	[51st of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita	204 per 100,000 people	[38th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	40.4%	[47th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	134.3%	[47th of 128]
Rapes	1,402	[15th of 50]
Robberies	110,672	[6th of 47]
Software piracy rate	66%	[49th of 107]
Total crimes	593,997	[14th of 50]
United States extradition treaties > Citation 32 Stat. 1850; TS 407; 6 Bevans 543.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed	April 17, 1900
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force	June 26, 2002
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	16.5	[42nd 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); 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; 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: Chile, Republic of Chile, Republica de Chile

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Rene HernandeZ
1st April 2005

I need information for a research paper on Chile on the following topics: 1.Police structure; and 2.Community and the police (overview).

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