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South America > Guyana > Crime

GUYANESE CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 30.06 % ... [2nd of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 17.79 % ... [5th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights 32.48 % ... [3rd of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 7.98 % ... [7th of 39]
Illicit drugs
transshipment point for narcotics from South America - primarily Venezuela - to Europe and the US; producer of cannabis; rising money laundering related to drug trafficking and human smuggling
Illicit drugs
transshipment point for narcotics from South America - primarily Venezuela - to Europe and the US; producer of cannabis; rising money laundering related to drug trafficking and human smuggling
Prisoners 1,507 prisoners [118th of 0]
Prisoners > Female 3.1% [87th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 0.6% [74th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita 175 per 100,000 people [45th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 27.7% [82nd of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 120.8% [58th 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 2.3 [104th of 143]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; 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: Guyana, Co-operative Republic of Guyana

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