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Acquitted
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1,149 |
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[29th of 30]
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Assaults
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3,182 |
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[33rd of 49]
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Car thefts
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566 |
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[40th of 46]
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Death penalty > Last executed
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1,903 |
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[40th of 55]
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Drug offences
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1,484 per 100,000 people |
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[29th of 46]
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Illicit drugs
major cocaine transshipment point and primary money-laundering center for narcotics revenue; money-laundering activity is especially heavy in the Colon Free Zone; offshore financial center; negligible signs of coca cultivation; monitoring of financial transactions is improving; official corruption remains a major problem |
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Jails
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21 |
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[40th of 80]
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Murders
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281 |
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[18th of 49]
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Murders committed by youths
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151 |
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[26th of 73]
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Murders committed by youths per capita
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14.4 |
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[10th of 57]
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Police
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15,255 |
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[31st of 47]
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Prisoners
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10,350 prisoners |
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[31st of 168]
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Prisoners > Female
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6.9% |
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[16th of 134]
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Prisoners > Per capita
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354 per 100,000 people |
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[15th of 164]
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Rapes
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212 |
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[34th of 50]
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Robberies
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4,366 |
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[23rd of 47]
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Software piracy rate
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74% |
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[35th of 107]
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Total crimes
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21,058 |
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[41st of 50]
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Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Panama is on the Tier 2 Watch List for failing to show evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking, particularly with respect to prosecuting, convicting, and sentencing human traffickers for their crimes, and for failing to provide adequate victim assistance |
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Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
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0 |
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[141st 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); 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); 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:
Panama, Republic of Panama, Republica de Panama
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