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Middle East > Cyprus > Crime

CYPRIOT CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Death penalty > Abolition date 2,002 [2nd of 64]
Death penalty > Abolition for ordinary crimes 1,983 [4th of 20]
Death penalty > Last executed 1,962 [21st of 55]
Murders with firearms 4 [32nd of 36]
Police 4,729 [42nd of 47]
Prisoners 1,254 prisoners [47th of 0]
Prisoners > Female 5.8% [32nd of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 42.9% [8th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita 50 per 100,000 people [133rd of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 13.2% [124th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 119% [61st of 128]
Rapes 13 [48th of 50]
Robberies 38 [45th of 47]
Software piracy rate 50% [72nd of 107]
Total crimes 13,023 [46th of 50]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Cyprus is primarily a destination country for a large number of women trafficked from Eastern and Central Europe, the Philippines, and the Dominican Republic for the purpose of sexual exploitation; traffickers continued to fraudulently recruit victims for work as dancers in cabarets and nightclubs on short-term "artiste" visas, for work in pubs and bars on employment visas, or for illegal work on tourist or student visas; there were credible reports of female domestic workers from India, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines forced to work excessively long hours and denied proper compensation
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Cyprus does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and failed to show evidence of increasing efforts to address its serious trafficking for sexual exploitation problem; however, it is making significant efforts to do so
United States extradition treaties > Date signed June 17, 1996
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force September 14, 1999
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 2.5 [103rd of 143]

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SOURCES: Last updated: 01/04/03; 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; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; 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: Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus

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