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Africa > Ghana > Crime

GHANAIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Illicit drugs
illicit producer of cannabis for the international drug trade; major transit hub for Southwest and Southeast Asian heroin and, to a lesser extent, South American cocaine destined for Europe and the US; widespread crime and money laundering problem, but the lack of a well developed financial infrastructure limits the country's utility as a money laundering center; significant domestic cocaine and cannabis use
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Chamber PTC I
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Elected 2003, 2006
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Name Akua Kuenyenia
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Term End 2015
Prisoners 10,992 prisoners [60th of 168]
Prisoners > Female 2% [110th of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita 52 per 100,000 people [130th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 24.5% [90th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 145.5% [36th of 128]
United States extradition treaties > Citation
47 Stat. 2122; TS 849; 12 Bevans 482; 163 LNTS 59.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed December 22, 1931
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force June 24, 1935
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 11.3 [54th of 143]

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SOURCES: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Wikipedia: Judges of the International Criminal Court ; 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; 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: Ghana, Republic of Ghana

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