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Assaults
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10,784 |
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[31st of 49]
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Burglaries
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1,584 |
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[47th of 38]
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Death penalty > Abolition date
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1,995 |
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[20th of 64]
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Death penalty > Last executed
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1,987 |
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[11th of 55]
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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 |
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Jails
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9 |
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[50th of 80]
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Manslaughters
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2 |
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[44th of 42]
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Murders
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26 |
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[59th of 49]
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Murders committed by youths
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4 |
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[69th of 73]
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Police
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8,967 |
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[39th of 47]
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Prisoners
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2,565 prisoners |
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[113rd of 168]
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Prisoners > Female
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4.1% |
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[67th of 134]
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Prisoners > Foreign prisoners
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3.4% |
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[49th of 86]
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Prisoners > Per capita
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214 per 100,000 people |
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[34th of 164]
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Rapes
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27 |
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[63rd of 50]
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Robberies
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1,166 |
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[50th of 47]
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Sentence Length
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9 |
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[24th of 21]
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Software piracy rate
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57% |
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[64th of 107]
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Total crimes
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35,943 |
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[50th of 50]
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Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
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20.5 |
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[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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