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Europe > Greece > Crime

GREEK CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Assaults 3,322 [42nd of 49]
Burglaries 15,899 [30th of 38]
Car thefts 8,486 [29th of 46]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 9.8 % Time series [29th of 39]
Drug offences 33.3 per 100,000 people [25th of 46]
Frauds 391 [55th of 48]
Illicit drugs
a gateway to Europe for traffickers smuggling cannabis and heroin from the Middle East and Southwest Asia to the West and precursor chemicals to the East; some South American cocaine transits or is consumed in Greece; money laundering related to drug trafficking and organized crime
Manslaughters 19 [36th of 42]
Murders 81 [49th of 49]
Murders committed by youths 25 [54th of 73]
Murders committed by youths per capita 0.9 [53rd of 57]
Prisoners 8,841 prisoners [67th of 168]
Prisoners > Female 4.9% [48th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 42.4% [9th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita 83 per 100,000 people [103rd of 164]
Rapes 114 [49th of 50]
Robberies 833 [52nd of 47]
Software piracy rate 58% [60th of 107]
Total crimes 102,783 [36th of 50]
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 0 [133rd 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); 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); All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; 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); Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study; 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: Greece, Hellenic Republic, Elliniki Dhimokratia, Ellas or Ellada

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Suchita Vemuri
Staff Editor
28th March 2005 		Hi Helen, as explained, we only report on countries, not smaller administrative regions. But you could compare the data for all crimes in Greece and the United Kingdom and also look at the different data-sets under the category for Crime for more detailed comparisons.
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