NationMaster - Mauritian Crime statistics

Assaults	10,784	[31st of 49]
Burglaries	1,584	[47th of 38]
Death penalty > Abolition date	1,995	[20th of 64]
Death penalty > Last executed	1,987	[11th of 55]
Illicit drugs consumer and transshipment point for heroin from South Asia; small amounts of cannabis produced and consumed locally; significant offshore financial industry creates potential for money laundering, but corruption levels are relatively low and the government appears generally to be committed to regulating its banking industry
Jails	9	[50th of 80]
Manslaughters	2	[44th of 42]
Murders	26	[59th of 49]
Murders committed by youths	4	[69th of 73]
Police	8,967	[39th of 47]
Prisoners	2,565 prisoners	[113rd of 168]
Prisoners > Female	4.1%	[67th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners	3.4%	[49th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita	214 per 100,000 people	[34th of 164]
Rapes	27	[63rd of 50]
Robberies	1,166	[50th of 47]
Sentence Length	9	[24th of 21]
Software piracy rate	57%	[64th of 107]
Total crimes	35,943	[50th of 50]
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	20.5	[34th 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); Last updated: 01/04/03; 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); 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: Mauritius, Republic of Mauritius

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