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Southeast Asia > Malaysia > Crime

MALAYSIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Bribe payers index 3.9 [15th of 19]
Jails 26,294 [1st of 0]
Judges and Magistrates 357 [31st of 35]
Murders 551 [24th of 49]
Police 82,383 [14th of 47]
Prisoners 39,258 prisoners [33rd of 0]
Prisoners > Female 9% [8th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 39.6% [11th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita 161 per 100,000 people [54th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 30.7% [72nd of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 122.5% [57th of 128]
Rapes 1,210 [26th of 50]
Robberies 14,696 [22nd of 47]
Software piracy rate 59% [59th of 107]
Total crimes 167,173 [32nd of 50]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Malaysia is a destination and, to a lesser extent, a source and transit country for men and women trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor; foreign victims, mostly women and girls from China, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam, are trafficked to Malaysia for commercial sexual exploitation; economic migrants from countries in the region who work as domestic servants or laborers in the construction and agricultural sectors face exploitative conditions in Malaysia that meet the definition of involuntary servitude; some Malaysian women, primarily of Chinese ethnicity, are trafficked abroad for sexual exploitation
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Malaysia is placed on Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking, particularly its failure to provide protection for victims of trafficking
United States extradition treaties > Date signed August 3, 1995
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force June 2, 1997
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 1.4 [112nd of 143]

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SOURCES: 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); 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; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties ; 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: Malaysia

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