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Acquitted
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4,265 |
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[21st of 30]
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Bribe payers index
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3.9 |
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[15th of 19]
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Burglaries
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32,913 |
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[21st of 38]
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Car thefts
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55,879 |
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[13th of 46]
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Drug offences
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48.6 per 100,000 people |
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[19th of 46]
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Illicit drugs
drug trafficking prosecuted vigorously and carries severe penalties; heroin still primary drug of abuse, but synthetic drug demand remains strong; continued ecstasy and methamphetamine producer for domestic users and, to a lesser extent, the regional drug market |
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Jails
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26,294 |
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[1st of 80]
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Murders
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551 |
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[24th of 49]
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Police
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82,383 |
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[14th of 47]
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Prisoners
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39,258 prisoners |
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[33rd of 168]
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Prisoners > Female
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9% |
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[8th of 134]
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Prisoners > Foreign prisoners
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39.6% |
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[11th of 86]
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Prisoners > Per capita
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161 per 100,000 people |
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[54th of 164]
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Rapes
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1,210 |
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[26th of 50]
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Robberies
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14,696 |
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[22nd of 47]
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Software piracy rate
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59% |
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[59th of 107]
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Total crimes
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167,173 |
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[32nd of 50]
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Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Malaysia is a destination and, to a lesser extent, a source and transit country for women and children trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, and men, women, and children for forced labor; Malaysia is mainly a destination country for men, women, and children who migrate willingly from South and Southeast Asia to work, some of whom are subjected to conditions of involuntary servitude by Malaysian employers in the domestic, agricultural, construction, plantation, and industrial sectors; to a lesser extent, some Malaysian women, primarily of Chinese ethnicity, are trafficked abroad for commercial sexual exploitation |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Malaysia improved from Tier 3 to the Tier 2 Watch List for 2008 when it enacted comprehensive anti-trafficking legislation in July 2007; however, it did not take action against exploitative employers or labor traffickers in 2007; the government has not ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol |
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Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
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1.4 |
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[112nd 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); Transparency 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); 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); 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
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