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Acquitted
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1,199 |
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[27th of 30]
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Death penalty > Abolition date
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1,966 |
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[57th of 64]
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DEFINITION: Amnesty International |
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SOURCE: 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) |
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Jails
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32 |
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[31st of 80]
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DEFINITION: Total number of adult prisons, penal or correctional institutions (excluding temporary jail lock-ups). Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. |
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SOURCE: Last updated: 01/04/03 |
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Prisoners
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13,836 prisoners |
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[55th of 168]
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DEFINITION: Total persons incarcerated |
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SOURCE: 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) |
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Prisoners > Female
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3.1% |
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[88th of 134]
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DEFINITION: Female prisoners, expressed as a percentage share of the total prison population. Data for 2003. |
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SOURCE: 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) |
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Prisoners > Foreign prisoners
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5.2% |
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[45th of 86]
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DEFINITION: Prisoners who are foreign nationals, expressed as a percentage share of total prison population. Data for 2003. |
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SOURCE: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief |
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Prisoners > Per capita
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157 per 100,000 people |
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[57th of 164]
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DEFINITION: Data for 2003. Number of prisoners held per 100,000 population. |
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SOURCE: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief |
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Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees
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79.8% |
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[3rd of 143]
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DEFINITION: The percentage of the prison population that is being held pre-trial / on remand. Data for 2003. |
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SOURCE: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief |
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Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled
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175.3% |
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[19th of 128]
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DEFINITION: The percentage of the offical prison capacity filled. This is obtained by comparing the number of prisoners in a nation to the offical capacity of the nation's prison system. Data for 2003. |
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SOURCE: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief |
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Sentence Length
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48 |
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[11th of 21]
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DEFINITION: Total average sentence length served |
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SOURCE: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief |
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Software piracy rate
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79% |
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[30th of 107]
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DEFINITION: The piracy rate is the total number of units of pirated software deployed in 2007 divided by the total units of software installed. |
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SOURCE: 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) |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
the Dominican Republic is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor; a large number of Dominican women are trafficked into prostitution and sexual exploitation in Western Europe, Australia, Central and South America, and Caribbean destinations; a significant number of women, boys, and girls are trafficked within the country for sexual exploitation and domestic servitude |
DEFINITION: Trafficking in persons is modern-day slavery, involving victims who are forced, defrauded, or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation. The International Labor Organization (ILO), the UN agency charged with addressing labor standards, employment, and social protection issues, estimates that 12.3 million people worldwide are enslaved in forced labor, bonded labor, forced child labor, sexual servitude, and involuntary servitude at any given time. Human trafficking is a multi-dimensional threat, depriving people of their human rights and freedoms, risking global health, promoting social breakdown, inhibiting development by depriving countries of their human capital, and helping fuel the growth of organized crime. In 2000, the US Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), reauthorized in 2003 and 2005, which provides tools for the US to combat trafficking in persons, both domestically and abroad. One of the law's key components is the creation of the US Department of State's annual Trafficking in Persons Report, which assesses the government response in some 150 countries with a significant number of victims trafficked across their borders who are recruited, harbored, transported, provided, or obtained for forced labor or sexual exploitation. Countries in the annual report are rated in three tiers, based on government efforts to combat trafficking. The countries identified in this entry are those listed in the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report as Tier 2 Watch List or Tier 3 based on the following definitions:
Tier 2 Watch List countries do not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but are making significant efforts to do so, and meet one of the following criteria:
1. they display a high or significantly increasing number victims,
2. they have failed to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons, or,
3. they have committed to take action over the next year.
Tier 3 countries neither satisfy the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking nor demonstrate a significant effort to do so. Countries in this tier are subject to potential non-humanitarian and non-trade sanctions. |
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SOURCE: Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - for a second consecutive year, the Dominican Republic is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to show evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking, particularly in terms of not adequately investigating and prosecuting public officials who may be complicit with trafficking activity, and inadequate government efforts to protect trafficking victims; the government has taken measures to reduce demand for commercial sex acts with children through criminal prosecutions |
DEFINITION: Trafficking in persons is modern-day slavery, involving victims who are forced, defrauded, or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation. The International Labor Organization (ILO), the UN agency charged with addressing labor standards, employment, and social protection issues, estimates that 12.3 million people worldwide are enslaved in forced labor, bonded labor, forced child labor, sexual servitude, and involuntary servitude at any given time. Human trafficking is a multi-dimensional threat, depriving people of their human rights and freedoms, risking global health, promoting social breakdown, inhibiting development by depriving countries of their human capital, and helping fuel the growth of organized crime. In 2000, the US Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), reauthorized in 2003 and 2005, which provides tools for the US to combat trafficking in persons, both domestically and abroad. One of the law's key components is the creation of the US Department of State's annual Trafficking in Persons Report, which assesses the government response in some 150 countries with a significant number of victims trafficked across their borders who are recruited, harbored, transported, provided, or obtained for forced labor or sexual exploitation. Countries in the annual report are rated in three tiers, based on government efforts to combat trafficking. The countries identified in this entry are those listed in the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report as Tier 2 Watch List or Tier 3 based on the following definitions:
Tier 2 Watch List countries do not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but are making significant efforts to do so, and meet one of the following criteria:
1. they display a high or significantly increasing number victims,
2. they have failed to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons, or,
3. they have committed to take action over the next year.
Tier 3 countries neither satisfy the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking nor demonstrate a significant effort to do so. Countries in this tier are subject to potential non-humanitarian and non-trade sanctions. |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
United States extradition treaties > Citation
36 Stat. 2468; TS 550; 7 Bevans 200 |
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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United States extradition treaties > Date signed
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June 19, 1909 |
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties
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United States extradition treaties > Entered into force
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August 2, 1910 |
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties
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Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
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0.1 |
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[121st of 143]
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DEFINITION: Average Unpaid Annual New York City Parking Violations per Diplomat, 11/1997 to 11/2002. |
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties
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