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South America > Peru > Crime

PERUVIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Assaults 26,728 [19th of 49]
Burglaries 7,198 [27th of 38]
Car thefts 1,899 [31st of 46]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 4.26 % Time series [15th of 39]
Drug offences 4,359 per 100,000 people [22nd of 46]
Illicit drugs
until 1996 the world's largest coca leaf producer, Peru is now the world's second largest producer of coca leaf, though it lags far behind Colombia; cultivation of coca in Peru declined to 36,000 hectares in 2007; second largest producer of cocaine, estimated at 210 metric tons of potential pure cocaine in 2007; finished cocaine is shipped out from Pacific ports to the international drug market; increasing amounts of base and finished cocaine, however, are being moved to Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia for use in the Southern Cone or transshipment to Europe and Africa; increasing domestic drug consumption
Jails 81 [19th of 80]
Kidnappings 491 kidnappings [6th of 39]
Murders 1,136 [8th of 49]
Murders with firearms 442 [6th of 36]
Prisoners 27,417 prisoners [20th of 168]
Prisoners > Female 8.1% [10th of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita 104 per 100,000 people [88th of 164]
Rapes 5,968 [7th of 50]
Robberies 34,036 [9th of 47]
Software piracy rate 71% [40th of 107]
Total crimes 161,621 [24th of 50]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Peru is primarily a source country for women and children trafficked internally for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced domestic labor; most victims are girls and young women moved internally from rural to urban areas, or from city to city, and lured or coerced into prostitution in nightclubs, bars, and brothels; Peruvians have also been trafficked for sexual exploitation to Spain, Japan, the United States, and Venezuela; the government acknowledges that sex tourism occurs, particularly in the Amazon region of the country
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Peru is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List for failure to show evidence of increasing efforts to eliminate trafficking in 2005
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 3.1 [98th 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); 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: Peru, Republic of Peru, Republica del Peru

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