FACTOID # 5: Russia has almost twice as many judges and magistrates as the United States. Meanwhile, the United States has 8 times as much crime.
 
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Middle East > Israel > Crime

ISRAELI CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation > Broadcast details > Alternate title/Translation
"Zirat Ha-Pesha" (Hebrew: זירת הפשע)
Crime Scene
Illicit drugs
increasingly concerned about ecstasy, cocaine, and heroin abuse; drugs arrive in country from Lebanon and, increasingly, from Jordan; money-laundering center
Murders committed by youths 13 [63rd of 73]
Prisoners 11,027 prisoners [59th of 164]
Prisoners > Female 1.7% [120th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 24.9% [23rd of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita 174 per 100,000 people [46th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 15.5% [120th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 103% [88th of 128]
Software piracy losses $69.00 [39th of 84]
Software piracy rate 35% [69th of 84]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Israel is a destination country for low-skilled workers from Eastern Europe and Asia who migrate voluntarily for contract labor in the construction, agriculture, and health care industries, some of whom are subsequently subjected to conditions of involuntary servitude; many labor recruitment agencies in source countries and in Israel require workers to pay large up-front fees that often lead to debt bondage and vulnerability to forced labor; Israel is also a destination country for women trafficked from Eastern Europe for the purpose of sexual exploitation
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Israel is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to address trafficking, namely the conditions of involuntary servitude allegedly facing thousands of foreign migrant workers
United States extradition treaties > Citation
14 UST 1707.
18 UST 382.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed December 10, 1962
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force
December 5, 1963
April 11, 1967
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 191 [2nd of 116]
    (per $ GDP) 0.00148062 per $1 million [24th of 115]
    (per capita) 30.4285 per 1 million people [9th of 116]

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SOURCES: Wikipedia: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Software piracy study - Business Software Association of Australia; Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties ; Mr Lennox-Boyd's reports to the House of Commons; recorded in the House of Commons Hansard for 03-11-92

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Israel, State of Israel, Medinat Yisra'el, Yisra'el

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