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Middle East > Jordan > Crime

JORDANIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Executions 9 executions [15th of 22]
Jails 10 [43rd of 80]
Prisoners 5,589 prisoners [39th of 168]
Prisoners > Female 1.6% [122nd of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 22.1% [24th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita 106 per 100,000 people [84th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 41.8% [43rd of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 80.1% [114th of 128]
Software piracy rate 60% [57th of 107]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Jordan is a destination and transit country for women and men from South and Southeast Asia trafficked for the purpose of forced labor; Jordan is also a destination for women from Eastern Europe and Morocco for prostitution; women from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and the Philippines migrate willingly to work as domestic servants, but some are subjected to conditions of forced labor, including unlawful withholding of passports, restrictions on movement, non-payment of wages, threats, and physical or sexual abuse
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Jordan is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons in 2007, particularly in the area of law enforcement against trafficking for forced labor; the government made minimal efforts to investigate or prosecute numerous allegations related to exploitation of foreign domestic workers; Jordan failed for a second year to criminally prosecute and punish those who committed acts of forced labor; Jordan also continues to lack victim protection services; Jordan has not ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol
United States extradition treaties > Citation
1995 U.S.T. LEXIS 215.
TREATY DOC. 104-3
United States extradition treaties > Date signed March 28, 1995
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force July 29, 1995
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 2.9 [100th of 143]

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SOURCES: Amnesty International; 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); 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; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; 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: Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Al Mamlakah al Urduniyah al Hashimiyah, Al Urdun

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