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Europe > Latvia > Crime

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Acquitted 108 [25th of 30]
Car thefts 2,845 [28th of 46]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 8.91 % Time series [30th of 39]
Drug offences 629 per 100,000 people [39th of 46]
Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms 11.194 [26th of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Firearm homicide rate > per 100,000 pop. 1.2648 [17th of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Overall homicide rate > per 100,000 pop. 11.2985 [11th of 32]
Jails 8,110 [1st of 80]
Manslaughters 11 [36th of 42]
Murders committed by youths 55 [42nd of 73]
Murders committed by youths per capita 7.8 [19th of 57]
Murders with firearms 28 [24th of 36]
Prisoners 8,483 prisoners [33rd of 168]
Prisoners > Female 5.3% [41st of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 0.6% [73rd of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita 339 per 100,000 people [19th of 164]
Sentence Length 58 [7th of 21]
Software piracy rate 56% [65th of 107]
Total crimes 49,329 [35th of 50]
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 0 [128th 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); 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; Wikipedia: Gun violence ; 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 Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; 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: Latvia, Republic of Latvia, Latvijas Republika, Latvija

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