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Africa > Morocco > Crime

MOROCCAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Assaults 46,341 [12th of 49]
Car thefts 1,523 [33rd of 46]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 16.94 % Time series [6th of 39]
Drug offences 17,064 per 100,000 people [14th of 46]
Illicit drugs
one of the world's largest producers of illicit hashish; shipments of hashish mostly directed to Western Europe; transit point for cocaine from South America destined for Western Europe; significant consumer of cannabis
Jails 46 [26th of 80]
Kidnappings 6 kidnappings [36th of 39]
Manslaughters 199 [11th of 42]
Murders 143 [32nd of 49]
Murders with firearms 1 [33rd of 36]
Police 41,977 [17th of 47]
Prisoners 54,351 prisoners [12th of 168]
Prisoners > Female 3.3% [86th of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita 176 per 100,000 people [44th of 164]
Rapes 1,015 [18th of 50]
Robberies 8,821 [17th of 47]
Sentence Length 736 [9th of 21]
Software piracy rate 67% [48th of 107]
Total crimes 283,702 [22nd of 50]
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 60 [13th 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; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; 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; 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: Morocco, Kingdom of Morocco, Al Mamlakah al Maghribiyah, Al Maghrib

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