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Europe > Portugal > Crime

Acquitted 14,479 [7th of 30]
Assault victims 0.4% [19th of 20]
Car thefts 30,560 [13th of 46]
Death penalty > Abolition date 1,976 [52nd of 64]
Death penalty > Last executed 1,849 [41st of 55]
Drug offences 3,758 per 100,000 people [25th of 46]
Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms 25.3776 [14th of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Firearm homicide rate > per 100,000 pop. 0.8488 [18th of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Overall homicide rate > per 100,000 pop. 3.31 [22nd of 32]
Jails 54 [23rd of 80]
Murders committed by youths 37 [47th of 73]
Murders committed by youths per capita 1.3 [50th of 57]
Murders with firearms 90 [15th of 36]
Prisoners 13,918 prisoners [27th of 168]
Prisoners > Per capita 130 per 100,000 people [64th of 164]
Rape victims 0.2% [18th of 20]
Software piracy rate 43% [81st of 107]
Total crime victims 15.5% [19th of 20]
Total crimes 218,360 [23rd of 50]
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 8.8 [67th 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); UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute). 2002. Correspondence on data on crime victims. March. Turin; 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; Wikipedia: Gun violence ; 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: Portugal, Portuguese Republic, Republica Portuguesa

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